From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 9 Aug 2001 18:00:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 9 Aug 2001 18:00:13 -0400 Received: from ntt-connection.daiwausa.com ([210.175.188.3]:14909 "EHLO ead42.ead.dsa.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 9 Aug 2001 18:00:05 -0400 Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 17:59:51 -0400 From: "Bill Rugolsky Jr." To: Oliver Neukum Cc: Andreas Dilger , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: using bug reports on vendor kernels Message-ID: <20010809175951.C22594@ead45> In-Reply-To: <200108092131.f79LV4Hr024656@webber.adilger.int> <01080923423801.04822@idun> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <01080923423801.04822@idun>; from Oliver.Neukum@lrz.uni-muenchen.de on Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 11:42:38PM +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 11:42:38PM +0200, Oliver Neukum wrote: > It might do so. However the speed of my internet connectivity would make this > a very, very slow task. > And the day after having completed that I'd be bound to get a bug report from > a Mandrake user. It sounds like you want an {ftp,http,...} server that allows you to look transparently into archives like zip, tar, cpio, rpm, etc. Do any of the standard ones do this? (ftp certainly can *create* .tar.) Just don't ask for it in the kernel ... [ducks under desk :-)] Regards, Bill Rugolsky