From: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>
Cc: vherva@twilight.cs.hut.fi, mikael.starvik@axis.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tinglett@vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: zImage now holds vmlinux, System.map and config in sections. (fwd)
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 17:52:04 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030225175204.B21014@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030225083811.797fbce6.rddunlap@osdl.org>; from rddunlap@osdl.org on Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 08:38:11AM -0800
On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 08:38:11AM -0800, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
> I'm just guessing that it will be difficult to convince you otherwise,
> but I think you are missing the point of this. It's not for someone
> who already has scripts to handle this or already uses 3+ commands
> to handle it every time that they build a new kernel. It's for
> people who are less organized than you are -- gosh, maybe even
> for Linux users.
Well, rather than creating yet another archive system, maybe we should
just tar the lot up and make all boot loaders aware of the tar format?
After all, everyone understands tar and .debs better than RPMs, don't
they?
8-)
--
Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk) The developer of ARM Linux
http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-02-25 17:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-02-25 6:28 zImage now holds vmlinux, System.map and config in sections. (fwd) Mikael Starvik
2003-02-25 9:25 ` Russell King
2003-02-25 11:07 ` Ville Herva
2003-02-25 11:35 ` Russell King
2003-02-25 12:03 ` Ville Herva
2003-02-25 14:34 ` Jeremy Jackson
2003-02-26 18:41 ` Peter Bergner
2003-02-25 22:00 ` Bryan Andersen
2003-02-25 12:50 ` Remco Post
2003-02-25 13:35 ` Russell King
2003-02-25 16:38 ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-02-25 17:52 ` Russell King [this message]
2003-02-26 20:01 ` Todd Inglett
2003-02-26 20:45 ` Peter Bergner
2003-02-25 19:22 ` Ville Herva
2003-02-25 16:23 ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-02-25 20:00 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-02-25 21:24 ` Russell King
2003-02-25 21:52 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-02-25 23:21 ` Magnus Danielson
[not found] <Pine.LNX.4.33.0302241010200.1088-100000@localhost.localdomain>
2003-02-24 19:58 ` Randy.Dunlap
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