Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 16:28:39 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 16:28:39 -0500 Received: from pasmtp.tele.dk ([193.162.159.95]:39942 "EHLO pasmtp.tele.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 16:28:20 -0500 Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 22:39:17 +0100 From: Sam Ravnborg To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: mirrors , linux-kernel Subject: Re: Deprecating .gz format on kernel.org Message-ID: <20030319213917.GB1030@mars.ravnborg.org> Mail-Followup-To: "H. Peter Anvin" , mirrors , linux-kernel References: <3E78D0DE.307@zytor.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3E78D0DE.307@zytor.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 900 Lines: 22 On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 12:19:42PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Hello everyone, > > At some point it probably would make sense to start deprecating .gz > format files from kernel.org. It is a convinient feature that I can download the kernel now and then when at work (no linux) - and it makes it a bit simpler to use an archiver that has native support for the format used. Winzip, being the only allowed archiver at work, does not have native bz2 support. I have a .bz2 commandline version on the windoze machine so I will cope, but mainly to let you know that deprecating .gz you will make it difficult for a minority to read the kernel src. Sam - 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/