Re: [Gnu-arch-users] ANN: Linux Kernel Arch Repository

[Karel Gardas]

On Thu, 11 Sep 2003, John Goerzen wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I've made available a public Arch archive containing the full history
> of the Linux kernel from version 0.01 to the present-day 2.6 test
> series and all versions in between (plus some -pre, -test, and -rc
> versions).  I intend to keep it updated as new versions of the kernel
> are released.
>
> Archive name: address@hidden
> Location:     http://arch.debian.org/arch/linux
>
> Documentation and category/branch names (important):
>    http://arch.debian.org/docs/linux/ (open this in a web browser, not tla)
>
> The archive was made by importing each version from ftp.kernel.org
> using my kernimport and tla_load_dirs scripts.  Changelogs, when
> published at kernel.org, are included in the Arch log message.  All
> arch log messages include the version of the kernel committed and an
> estimate of its original release date.
>
> Original branching is maintained where possible; for instance, the
> linus--mainline--2.5 tree appears in the archive as a tag of
> linus--mainline--2.4--patch-20, the last version before 2.5 split off
> upstream.
>
> Configs are available (see the docs) to make it easy to retrieve any
> arbitrary kernel version.
>
> Enjoy, and please send me any comments!

Huh! This sounds like _big_ task. Could you be so kind and provide us
with some numbers like:

- whole archive size
- time needed to do whole import
- revision library size for whole archive - if you even do have it

Thanks,

Karel
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