Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 9 Apr 1998 05:07:34 +0100 (BST) | From | Riley Williams <> | Subject | Re: Modularizing source tree? |
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Hi Peter.
On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, Peter Amstutz wrote:
> I hate to bring this up, and it's probably been argued before (I > haven't > been watching linux-kernel that long) but has any thought > been given to modularizing the kernel source archive? It is > presently topping 11 megabytes and constantly growing, and 2.2.0 > will almost certainly be over twice as big as the .tar.gz for 2.0.0 > was.
As a first step towards this, I'd recommend splitting the kernel source into a series of archives, one with all the architecture independant stuff in, then a separate one for each subdirectory under linux/arch so people only need to download two archives, as required for theeir setup.
Best wishes from Riley.
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