2.4.x snapshots started

Just like 2.5.x, nightly snapshots of Marcelo's latest 2.4.x BK repository are being posted on kernel.org:

ftp://ftp.??.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/snapshots/

I created the first snapshot midday as a test, and the standard cron job created a second one, so the current release is 2.4.21-bk2.

Note that snapshots are NOT based off -pre and -rc releases. 2.4.21-bkN will continue, for ascending values of N, until 2.4.22 is released.

Just like 2.5.x, when a new version is released, the old snapshots are moved into ftp://ftp.??.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/snapshots/old/

Just like 2.5.x, when a new snapshot appears, another automated job generates the incremental diff between this and the last snapshot:
ftp://ftp.??.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/snapshots/incr/

Jeff

Thanks Jeff, this can be time-saving for some of us.

Willy

Jeff, in -bk2, only EXTRAVERSION got changed in Makefile, so the complete name is now 2.4.22-bk2. This is because the base kernel was 2.4.22-pre2.

Cheers,
Willy

hrm, good point. Fixing...

Jeff