Messages in this thread | | | From | (bill davidsen) | Subject | Re: Linux v2.4.19 | Date | 7 Aug 2002 01:54:33 GMT |
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In article <1028413405.1761.38.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk>, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote: | On Sat, 2002-08-03 at 22:00, Ged Haywood wrote: | > Hi there, | > | > On Sat, 3 Aug 2002, Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote: | > | > > Haven't the tarballs usuaully been archived as 'linux/' instead of | > > 'linux-2.4.19/' ? | > | > Absolutely not. Many systems have a symlink 'linux' to the current | > kernel tree, which is a directory e.g. 'linux-2.2.16'. If the tarball | | Kernels until recently did always unpack into linux/. Linus changed and | I'm happy Marcelo has followed suit, its much more sensible the new way
Let's hope the major fix trees like -aa and -ac follow the convention. I have no problem with the change (since I keep my stuff that way) but I hope it is pervasive. -- bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> CTO, TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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