Messages in this thread | | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: us.kernel.org mirroring inconsistency | Date | 7 Jan 1999 01:23:18 GMT |
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Followup to: <Pine.LNX.3.96.990104235221.7475D-100000@ps.cus.umist.ac.uk> By author: Riley Williams <rhw@bigfoot.com> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > Better still, use the http URL below to track down bz2 versions of ALL > known kernels to date - and delete the gz versions from ftp.kernel.org > before somebody starts claiming that they're GNU products as they're > archived using a GNU archiver... >
Stop it. NOW. I have already explained a NUMBER of times that .gz will not be deleted from ftp.kernel.org any time soon; this wouldn't change unless both (a) adoption and (b) stability of the .bz2 format became more sufficient than it is now. I have reasons to believe (b) is a concern.
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