Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 15:47:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 15:47:11 -0500 Received: from filesrv1.baby-dragons.com ([199.33.245.55]:42886 "EHLO filesrv1.baby-dragons.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 15:46:58 -0500 Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 15:57:51 -0500 (EST) From: "Mr. James W. Laferriere" To: "H. Peter Anvin" cc: mirrors , linux-kernel Subject: Re: Deprecating .gz format on kernel.org In-Reply-To: <3E78D0DE.307@zytor.com> Message-ID: References: <3E78D0DE.307@zytor.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1140 Lines: 24 Hello Peter , IMO it ain't going away '.' . My systems will not carry .bz2's , that is a Fyi . Not that it matters for systems over which you have opinion &/or control . Thanks for listening . JimL On Wed, 19 Mar 2003, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Hello everyone, > At some point it probably would make sense to start deprecating .gz > format files from kernel.org. > I am envisioning this as a three-phase changeover: > a) Get all mirrors to carry .bz2 format. This would affect the > following sites: -- +------------------------------------------------------------------+ | James W. Laferriere | System Techniques | Give me VMS | | Network Engineer | P.O. Box 854 | Give me Linux | | babydr@baby-dragons.com | Coudersport PA 16915 | only on AXP | +------------------------------------------------------------------+ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/