Messages in this thread |  | | From | Todd Graham Lewis <> | Subject | Re: Linux and not version dirs | Date | Tue, 18 Jun 1996 22:46:31 -0400 |
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On Tue, 18 Jun 1996, Systemkennung Linux wrote:
> I personally'd much prefer to distribute the sources in in a directory > linux-<version> and to symlink /usr/src/linux to the actual sourcetree > in use. This would then also be a bit more consistent with the > GNU coding standards which are already being used by lots of other > Linux related software, not only GNU stuff.
I second this motion. I maintain separate trees for each of my running kernels. (Sue me for snarfing the entire tarball; I'm a T3 away from ftp.cc.gatech.edu 8^)
From time to time I will unthinkingly untar the source and overwrite whichever tree is symlink'ed to /usr/src/linux. Whether I overwrite or not, I still have to "mv linux linux-2.0; ln -s linux-2.0 linux", which is no big deal, but it is a pain.
# tar zxvf linux-2.0.tar.gz # ls -l total 11553 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Jun 9 15:12 linux -> linux-2.0 drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 1024 Jun 9 17:24 linux-2.0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5971891 Jun 9 17:26 linux-2.0.tar.gz
would be a much nicer way of doing things.
_____________________________________________________________________ Todd Graham Lewis Core Engineering Mindspring Enterprises tlewis@mindspring.com (Standard Disclaimers) (800) 719 4664, x2804
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