Re: us.kernel.org mirroring inconsistency

Henrik Edlund (henrik@edlund.org)
Sun, 10 Jan 1999 07:13:15 +0100 (CET)


On Fri, 8 Jan 1999, Alex Buell wrote:

> On Thu, 7 Jan 1999, Florian Lohoff wrote:
>
> > More disturbing i think are people pulling the whole tarball everytime.
> > I think we have to force them to learn how patch works and I think
> > we should do by releasing the patches 48 hours prior to the whole
> > tarball. The ones urgently wanting to have the kernel get the
> > patch.
>
> Make that a week!

What about users grabbing Linux for the first time? Are you gonna force
them to get a old version and patch it until eternity? That is one hell of
a way to welcome new users...

Henrik

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