Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 30 Sep 2004 03:30:45 -0400 | | From | James Bruce <> | | Subject | Re: Linux 2.6.9-rc3 |
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Clemens Schwaighofer wrote:
> | And thats one of the reasons I never dl the bz2 version. > > what has bz2 to do with that?
Some people believe bz2 to be buggy or otherwise less tolerant of corruption. For most people these things don't seem to come up; I've never had problems with either despite frequent work with large compressed datasets.
> | You should have started with a fresh unpack of 2.6.8, not 2.6.8.1 > | I just checked my scrollback and there is no such error here. > > well its a bit confusing. 2.6.8.1 is the latest stable right, normaly > patches are applied against the latest stable. Let's just hope this NFS > fix is on the rc series if you have to apply against 2.6.8
Linus decided that patches will always be off the previous non-extraversion tarball. Note that -rc3 is not relative to -rc2, so in that way its consistent. The reason Linus gave is that such trivial-but-important bugfixes may come *after* the next version has releases or release cantidates, so this is the only sane way. For example, if another tiny code bug motivated making a 2.6.8.2, the release cantidates shouldn't have to be rediffed. Hopefully it makes sense now :)
- Jim Bruce
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