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Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2001 12:25:27 -0500
From: "Michael H. Warfield" <mhw@wittsend.com>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
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Subject: Re: is 2.4.15 really available at www.kernel.org?
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On Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 10:27:45AM -0600, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Nov 2001, Michael H. Warfield wrote:
> > 	Point is that it BROKE some things....  Like "make install" on
> > RedHat installed the damn thing as /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.15-greased-turkey,
> > breaking the lilo settings if you set an image for "vmlinuz-2.4.15"
> > like you expected it to be.  Not funny.  Just had three freeswan
> > kinstall builds blow up because of that.

> Life is rough...

	Yes, this is true.  Rough enough as it is.  As one of the (minor)
device driver maintainers, I expect to test some of these versions (some
of which may be unexpectedly radioactive) as quick as I can and I keep
backs so my systems can be booted when a new version is unbootable (very
rare now days, thankfully).  This did NOT help that cause.  Making life
MORE difficult is not the way to get people to TEST things.

> 	Jeff

	Mike
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