Re: Linux and not version dirs

Kevin M Bealer (kmb203@psu.edu)
Fri, 21 Jun 1996 02:22:24 -0400 (EDT)


On Thu, 20 Jun 1996, Hasdi R Hashim wrote:

>
> Ayup! That's what i do. That's but not the problem. The problem is I can't
> untar the 'linux' directory as linux-2.0.x directory. I have to untar
> everything in a separate directory. eg
>
> cd /tmp
> tar zxvf linux-2.0.tar.gz
> su mv linux /usr/src/linux-2.0
> ln -s linux-2.0 linux
>

(Note dramatization YMMV :)

(where linux is a symlink to linux-x.y.z)

cd /usr/src
mkdir linux-2.0
rm linux
ln -s linux-2.0 linux
tar zxvf linux-2.0.tar.gz

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