Re: No full image on kernel.org home page.

[Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org>]

Try the "F" link on the right.

Brice



Steven Rostedt a écrit :
> Hi all,
> 
> Just wondering why there's only patches to download from the kernel.org
> home page?  It would be nice if you could also download the image that
> you needed to patch against.  I know I can easily get the images by
> cruising down the links of either the HTML or FTP.
> 
> If the full image is not there to have people use the patches more
> often, then it would make more sense to have a link on the main page to
> the image to patch against. If I have to make the effort to follow the
> links down to get a image, I'll just take the full image of the one I
> want instead of the patch.  This means that the next time I get a image,
> I need to download the whole thing again.
> 
> So having something like this:
> 
> The latest stable version of the Linux kernel is:  2.6.11.10  (patched against 2.6.11)
> 
> Having the 2.6.11.10 be a link to the patch and 2.6.11 the full bz2
> image tar ball.  When I get a image I would get the 2.6.11, then the
> patch. The next time I would only need to get the patch.  Otherwise,
> being lazy and a procrastinator, I would follow the links and download
> the 2.6.11.10 tarball.  (lazy since I don't need to do any patching, a
> procrastinator since I could have downloaded the 2.6.11 to patch against
> next time but just say "I'll do that later!").
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> -- Steve