Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 26 May 2005 15:43:23 +0200 | From | Brice Goglin <> | Subject | Re: No full image on kernel.org home page. |
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Try the "F" link on the right.
Brice
Steven Rostedt a écrit : > Hi all, > > Just wondering why there's only patches to download from the kernel.org > home page? It would be nice if you could also download the image that > you needed to patch against. I know I can easily get the images by > cruising down the links of either the HTML or FTP. > > If the full image is not there to have people use the patches more > often, then it would make more sense to have a link on the main page to > the image to patch against. If I have to make the effort to follow the > links down to get a image, I'll just take the full image of the one I > want instead of the patch. This means that the next time I get a image, > I need to download the whole thing again. > > So having something like this: > > The latest stable version of the Linux kernel is: 2.6.11.10 (patched against 2.6.11) > > Having the 2.6.11.10 be a link to the patch and 2.6.11 the full bz2 > image tar ball. When I get a image I would get the 2.6.11, then the > patch. The next time I would only need to get the patch. Otherwise, > being lazy and a procrastinator, I would follow the links and download > the 2.6.11.10 tarball. (lazy since I don't need to do any patching, a > procrastinator since I could have downloaded the 2.6.11 to patch against > next time but just say "I'll do that later!"). > > Cheers, > > -- Steve - 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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