Re: us.kernel.org mirroring inconsistency
Helge Hafting (helge.hafting@daldata.no)
Mon, 11 Jan 1999 11:19:58 +0100
> 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.
[...]
> 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...
They would at worst have to get a 2-day old version, and apply one
or maybe two patches. Not too bad, and they would learn to use
patch too, very useful. Development kernels aren't meant for
linux newbies anyway. A kernel-hacker newbie can safely be forced
to learn the use of patch.
Helge Hafting
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