From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752937Ab2AaBNa (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:13:30 -0500 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:38794 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752166Ab2AaBN2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:13:28 -0500 Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:11:01 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-serial@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [GIT PATCH] TTY/serial patches for 3.3-rc1 Message-ID: <20120131011101.GA31748@suse.de> References: <20120130211241.GA12941@kroah.com> <20120131001308.GB20588@suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 04:27:22PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 4:13 PM, Greg KH wrote: > > > > Or I can spend the time to get the new version of git installed. > > Wrestling with my scripts or rpm, I don't know which is worse... > > Why do either? > > The sane way to do things is to just > > cd > mkdir src > cd src > git clone git://github.com/gitster/git > cd git > make > make install > > all as a regular user. It will install in your $(HOME)/bin, so just > put that first in the path. No need to fight rpm, no need to fight > your scripts, you should be pretty much all done. Nice, for some reason I thought it would do the horrible /usr/local/ thing, and get all messed up with the installed version. Ok, now done, so much for fighting with rpm, thanks, that made my day. greg k-h