From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261437AbVEZNnd (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 May 2005 09:43:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261445AbVEZNnd (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 May 2005 09:43:33 -0400 Received: from pilet.ens-lyon.fr ([140.77.167.16]:16611 "EHLO relaissmtp.ens-lyon.fr") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261437AbVEZNn2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 May 2005 09:43:28 -0400 Message-ID: <4295D27B.1030309@ens-lyon.org> Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 15:43:23 +0200 From: Brice Goglin User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050331) X-Accept-Language: fr, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Steven Rostedt Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, webmaster@kernel.org Subject: Re: No full image on kernel.org home page. References: <1117114714.4313.21.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1117114714.4313.21.camel@localhost.localdomain> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.91.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.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