On Saturday 26 Jan 2002 12:41, Ron Stodden wrote: > Guillaume Rousse wrote: > > Ainsi parlait Michal Bukovjan : > > > Hello list, > > > > > > is there any particular reason for the new kernel naming scheme? > > > I refer to these kernel-2.4.16.10mdk-1-1mdk names? > > > > > > Why not just 2.4.16-10mdk ? > > > > Look at list archive, you'll find plenty of litterature about this > > topic. -- > > Guillaume Rousse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > GPG key http://lis.snv.jussieu.fr/~rousse/gpgkey.html > > This naming change has been made without any consultation with > important users who depend on the existing naming convention. I have > published repeatedly troels.rpm5.pl to users of the cooker and expert > mailing lists. It is a script for downloading the entire set of > Mandrake files, and there are many users of this utility, because it > greatly speeds up downloading by only downloading English RPMs and by > renaming RPMs which are being updated so that rsync uses its > update-in-place mode to only down;oad the changes. > > Could we have a BNF (Backus-Naur Form) syntax diagram of the syntax and > semantics of the revised Mandrake file naming convention, please? > > troels.rpm5.pl is a free download from my web site: > > http://www.ains.net.au/~ronst
Welcome back Ron! Where have you been? -- Peter Ruskin, Wrexham, Wales. AMD Athlon XP 1600+, 512MB RAM. Registered Linux User 219434 ( see http://counter.li.org/ ). Mandrake Linux release 8.1 (Vitamin) for i586 Kernel 2.4.8-34.1mdk-win4lin, XFree86 4.1.0, patch level 21mdk. KDE: 2.2.2. Qt: 2.3.2. Up 19 hours 39 minutes.
