Messages in this thread | | | From | ketil@ii ... | Subject | Re: Why from there? | Date | 14 May 1998 11:00:42 +0200 |
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Pierre Phaneuf <pphaneuf@sx.nec.com> writes:
> Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > I'd second that, apart from a little question: if I apply patch-2.1.102 > > > to linux-2.1.101, is there a way to change the directory name to > > > linux-2.1.102? If not, I can see why it is named 'linux'. > > > > Bingo. > > And as pointed out by someone else, you can always go inside the > directory, patch using "-p1" instead of "-p0" and change the name of the > directory manually if necessary.
Or you could unpack the tarballs with the option to overwrite symlinks, move the resulting directory, and create a new linux symlink. Which is probably less work, if you patch more often than download the whole thing.
OTOH, the tarballs could come with version number *and* a symlink, couldn't they?
A final gripe: Why oh why aren't the files numbered with zero padding, e.g:
linux-2.1.08.tar.gz linux-2.1.09.tar.gz linux-2.1.10.tar.gz
instead of:
linux-2.1.1.tar.gz linux-2.1.10.tar.gz linux-2.1.2.tar.gz
Am I the only one annoyed by this? Does everybody else know about an undocumented switch to "ls", FTP "dir" and globbing which sorts numerically? It seems such a trivial thing to do....
(And perhaps one more number level for pre-kernels?)
~kzm -- If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footprints of giants
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