lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2003]   [Mar]   [26]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
Date
From
SubjectRe: Deprecating .gz format on kernel.org
On Tue, 25 March 2003 10:59:54 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, [iso-8859-1] J?rn Engel wrote:
>
> > And I have a hard time to think of a real-world application where you
> > don't want to unpack but need to verify the signature.
>
> My real world includes downloading a bunch of files and burning a CD to
> move them to a test environment which is completely private and has no
> external connections of any kind. I don't do all files that way, of
> course, but that is the way at least half of the 2.5 kernels I've used
> were moved to a machine which was non-production.

Real world always wins over imagination. I'll shut up now. :)

Jörn

--
When in doubt, use brute force.
-- Ken Thompson
-
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/

\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2005-03-22 13:34    [W:0.070 / U:0.716 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site