On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, David A. Bandel wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Mon, 20 Jan 2003 20:12:05 -0500 > begin [EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed forth: > > > Jerry > > > > Thanks. I clicked on the link on the main page. I knew there had to be > > tarballs of the complete kernel somewhere. > > I find it hard to believe that anyone on this list would waste bandwidth > to d/l 25Mb when one or two 1Mb d/l will do the same thing. Patching is > not hard. If there's no SxS on patching, I'll be happy to provide one. > It's brain dead simple and allows you to use your old .config (as in `make > oldoconfig`) and only decide to incorporate or no the new stuff.
Patching is not always an option. In some cases people don't do installs that include the kernel source. In other cases they're running an ancient kernel version (like Caldera's 2.4.2), so patching that up to 2.4.20 would take more time to download & apply than just grabbing the full source. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo http://netllama.ipfox.com _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
