From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 12:41:57 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 12:41:57 -0500 Received: from caramon.arm.linux.org.uk ([212.18.232.186]:53509 "EHLO caramon.arm.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 12:41:54 -0500 Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 17:52:04 +0000 From: Russell King To: "Randy.Dunlap" 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) Message-ID: <20030225175204.B21014@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Mail-Followup-To: "Randy.Dunlap" , vherva@twilight.cs.hut.fi, mikael.starvik@axis.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tinglett@vnet.ibm.com References: <3C6BEE8B5E1BAC42905A93F13004E8AB017DE84C@mailse01.axis.se> <20030225092520.A9257@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20030225110704.GD159052@niksula.cs.hut.fi> <20030225113557.C9257@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20030225083811.797fbce6.rddunlap@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20030225083811.797fbce6.rddunlap@osdl.org>; from rddunlap@osdl.org on Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 08:38:11AM -0800 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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