From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: New mtd-utils release? From: David Woodhouse To: Peter Korsgaard In-Reply-To: <87pr5plzfp.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> References: <20091214121439.GC28375@buzzloop.caiaq.de> <1260795633.11112.49.camel@localhost> <874ontso69.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> <1262590935.4512.3.camel@localhost> <20100104212543.GO17262@pengutronix.de> <1262672489.4512.46.camel@localhost> <87pr5plzfp.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2010 08:43:40 +0000 Message-ID: <1262681020.3181.7176.camel@macbook.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Robert Schwebel , linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, Daniel Mack , dedekind1@gmail.com List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 09:37 +0100, Peter Korsgaard wrote: > >>>>> "Artem" == Artem Bityutskiy writes: > > >> Could you upload a tarball into ftp://ftp.infradead.org/pub/mtd-utils/? > >> It would make the life of the distribution people easier. > > Artem> No sorry, I do not have access there, and I also think distributions can > Artem> easily fetch from git trees, which is not a problem at all. > > Who does, David? Artem, Thomas, Josh and myself. > I DO think normal tarballs is a lot nicer than a tag somewhere in > $VCS. For meta distributions like ptxdist, OE or buildroot tarballs are > easier to use and mirror, and if nothing else it stops people from > missing the new release when they browse > ftp://ftp.infradead.org/pub/mtd-utils/. Yeah, I agree. -- David Woodhouse Open Source Technology Centre David.Woodhouse@intel.com Intel Corporation