[Gnu-arch-users] preparing to stress test tla with linux-2.5

[Tupshin Harper]

I'm going to attempt to create an arch archive of the kernel 2.5 sources 
including all changesets from 2.5.0-present. (Has anybody done this 
yet?). I've started by importing the 2.5.0.tar.bz2 sources, and I'm 
currently downloading all of the bk exported changeset (from 
nl.linux.org). This amounts to something like 28,000(!!) changesets, 
most of which are multi-file patches.

So I've written a small script to iterate through the changeset files 
(in correct version order), and for each one do a make-log, apply the 
diff to the working directory, update the log with the comments from the 
diff and commit the changes. That's all untested until I finish 
downloading the changesets, but that much seems straightforward.

I'm going to do explicit tagging in my initial test to avoid any 
potential hassles with binary files, etc. I already modified the 
=tagging-method file to allow import of the "core" directory, and also 
to allow files with leading periods (of which there are two, unfortunately).

So the questions are:
1) Are there any additional steps you would peform in this process?
2) Is it useful to do any cacherevs along the way, or is caching not 
useful until I need to do a get?
3) Would you envision any additional problems that might bite me?

-Tupshin