Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 31 May 1999 23:59:59 +0100 (GMT) | From | Riley Williams <> | Subject | Re: Kernel tarball size |
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Hi Rogier.
>>> What would be nice (from the tar ball point of view) would be to >>> modularize the kernel sources so that they can be downloaded >>> separetly (I know I misspelled it), but I can easily imagine the >>> horror trying to keep that up to date and working properly. Not >>> very likely, but would be nice.
>> In fact, it isn't at all hard to do. I wrote a bash script that >> does just that some time back, and submitted it for >> consideration, and was told in response not to waste my time as >> Linus does the distributions the way they're currently done >> because he's used to it and feels that what suits him >> automatically suits everybody else.
> The short answer is "feel free to do what you like, but Linus > will keep on distributing full tarballs".
That's what I gathered...
> Linus doesn't mind if you have a mirror of ftp.kernel.org, and > then split it and put that on your own FTP site. If more people > start use that than use the original ftp.kernel.org, then that > might be an important argument to Linus to start running your > script.
I'm looking towards upgrading the hard drive space I have permanently online, and when it's upgraded, I might do just that...
Best wishes from Riley.
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