Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 7 Apr 1999 15:53:54 -0700 (PDT) | From | George Bonser <> | Subject | Re: /usr/src/linux/Documentation/Changes |
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On Wed, 7 Apr 1999, Aaron Lehmann wrote:
> I don't see this as an issue of RPM vs. TGZ... Up till now kernel > developers have standardized on tgz for distribution. If Linus wants to > change that the RPM, he's free to, even though I think that TGZ is the > right way to distribute this source. Inconsistancy is horrible. No one > wants to have to use tgz for some packages and srcprms for others. Lets > just stay consistent! As long as the kernel is distributed in a gzipped > tar file, so should everything else relating to the kernel.
If you distribute in RPM you are going to have to impose a place in the filesystem to put it on every system that unpacks the RPM. Even Debian now unpacks their kernel .deb packages as a tarball the user puts where they want.
Distributing the kernel source as an RPM is a BAD IDEA(tm).
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