Switch to cgit-generated tarballs for -rc kernels
Linus asked if he could get out of having to go through the whole
release process for the -rc kernels (signed tarball, patches, etc), as
almost nobody who cares about -rc kernels would be interested in those
things -- so we end up needlessly littering the /pub tree and
complicating his Sundays. Kernel developers use git and don't care about
patches or tarballs, and distros who do care about -rc tarballs have
people who are bright enough to know how to generate a tarball from a
git tag.
For those few who do want a -rc tarball and don't want to get it by
running "git archive", we will now link to the version automatically
generated by cgit. These -rc tarballs will not have a corresponding
PGP signature, so if you do need to be able to cryptographically verify
prerelease kernels, please use git and verify the git tag before running
"git archive". The tags for -rc kernels will continue to be pgp signed
by Linus.
To generate a tarball from a git tag (let's say from v4.11-rc8), do:
git verify-tag v4.11-rc8
git archive \
--format tar.gz \
--prefix linux-4.11-rc8/ \
-o linux-4.11-rc8.tar.gz \
v4.11-rc8
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>
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