Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 28 May 1997 05:07:02 -0400 | From | "David S. Miller" <> | Subject | Re: naive question: kernel CVS repository |
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Date: Tue, 27 May 1997 10:59:53 +0300 From: "Alexander L. Belikoff" <belikoff@netvision.net.il>
I just have a naive question (no pun intended, no flame war required). Why don't us establish an "official" CVS repository for the kernel.
Because Linus does not desire to do it this way, and we all respect his wishes.
This will allow people getting the updates automatically on a regular basis without having to fiddle with the whole kernel .tar.gz as well as with the patches (you know, sometimes you just cannot apply them cleanly, especially if you have 5-10 of them).
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This strategy has been used by the FreeBSD community for ages (please, don't kick!!!) and IMHO, seems to be a very advanced and easy to use. After all there is no bad in borrowing the best features of others' systems.
This is in fact the worst feature of the *BSD projects and is one of the numerous reasons behind the personal and political problems they have.
This strategy leads to power struggles and political problems, yeah today you could say we will be able to overcome the problems caused by a central CVS tree with multiple people having write access to it or whatever, this will never stay this way especially with a project as large as Linux.
In fact I hope that Linus continues to hold the opinion he does on this matter forever, he has the big red firetruck, he can decide how he drives it, and this is just fine with me.
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