Re: us.kernel.org mirroring inconsistency

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
7 Jan 1999 01:23:18 GMT

Followup to: <Pine.LNX.3.96.990104235221.7475D-100000@ps.cus.umist.ac.uk>
By author: Riley Williams <rhw@bigfoot.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Better still, use the http URL below to track down bz2 versions of ALL
> known kernels to date - and delete the gz versions from ftp.kernel.org
> before somebody starts claiming that they're GNU products as they're
> archived using a GNU archiver...
>

Stop it. NOW. I have already explained a NUMBER of times that .gz
will not be deleted from ftp.kernel.org any time soon; this wouldn't
change unless both (a) adoption and (b) stability of the .bz2 format
became more sufficient than it is now. I have reasons to believe (b)
is a concern.

-hpa

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