Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 18 Jun 1996 15:15:09 -0700 (PDT) | From | Jauder Ho <> | Subject | Re: Linux and not version dirs |
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look people, it is NOT that hard to do a
mv linux linux-<current.version> ln -s linux-<current.version> linux
give your fingers some excercise. I wonder what people are going to want next, the computer to code for them?
--Jauder
On Tue, 18 Jun 1996, Systemkennung Linux wrote:
> Hi, > > > >> BTW, does anybody know, why all kernel versions reside in > > >> a linux dircetory and not in linux-version? > > > > Presumably because of the symlinks from something like > > "/usr/src/linux/i386-asm" to "/usr/include/asm" and "/root/Linux" to " > > /usr/src/linux" i guess.. > > Simply because Linus does his personal development in /usr/src/linux/. > > 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. > > Ralf > >
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