[Crash-utility] previous source tarballs of the crash utility.

[Dave Anderson]

----- Original Message -----
> Hi Dave,
> 
> Do you mean all of the newer source tarballs will be on github permanently
> in the future?

Yes, that's correct. 

> If no I'd suggeust leaving links for some critical releases
> at least, since sometimes people need a certain release (e.g. applying
> patch on that release).
> 
> Thanks,
> Paul
> 
> 
> 2014-04-24 23:10 GMT+08:00 Dave Anderson <anderson at redhat.com>:
> 
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I need to download an old crash source tarball, e.g. 7.0.1, but I am just
> > > able to find 7.0.6 (from http://people.redhat.com/anderson/ ) and 7.0.5
> > and
> > > 7.0.4 (from https://github.com/crash-utility/crash/releases ), but I
> > found
> > > there is a src.rpm on rpmfinder.net
> > >
> > > crash-7.0.1-2.fc20.src.html   Kernel analysis utility for live systems,
> > > netdump, diskdump, kdump, LKCD or mcore dumpfiles     Fedora Secondary
> > Rawhide
> > > Sources       crash-7.0.1-2.fc20.src.rpm
> > > Anyone knows whether the code in rpmfiner.net is exactly same as the one
> > > which was on http://people.redhat.com/anderson/ . Is there any place
> > which
> > > have those old source tarballs or rpms?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Paul
> >
> > The crash sources found on
> > http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=307
> > take the upstream tarball from http://people.redhat.com/anderson, and may
> > *possibly*
> > apply additional patches.  However, in the case of crash-7.0.1-2.fc20, no
> > additional
> > patches were applied to the upstream version.
> >
> > Until I recently started the github repository, old upstream tarballs/rpms
> > were not
> > saved anywhere except for those found in the Fedora repository.  And the
> > Fedora releases
> > do not necessarily track all upstream releases.  If you really need a
> > particular version,
> > I can reproduce it from the in-house CVS repository.
> >
> > Dave
> >
> >
> >
>