Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: Download process for a "split kernel" (was: obsolete code must die) | Date | Thu, 14 Jun 2001 08:07:11 -0400 | From | Horst von Brand <> |
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David Luyer <david_luyer@pacific.net.au> said:
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> This might actually make sense - a kernel composed of multiple versioned > segments. A tool which works out dependencies of the options being selected, > downloads the required parts if the latest versions of those parts are not > already downloaded, and then builds the kernel (or could even build during > the download, as soon as the build dependencies for each block of the kernel > are satisfied, if you want to be fancy...).
Please do look at the archives to find out just why this idea is floated each 3 to 4 months and then shot down, and why. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand mailto:vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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