Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933206Ab0BFXBB (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Feb 2010 18:01:01 -0500 Received: from ey-out-2122.google.com ([74.125.78.26]:9685 "EHLO ey-out-2122.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932104Ab0BFXA7 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Feb 2010 18:00:59 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=FmLDalio+vSkd4xaIZMwPD5KSuR0dD1QbfLMKJ6vsVVEvFy+WUk9eIAR1ZCX6uwdAq A/NW4ypHnNHLWfXBG7nPo8/iPYK/nlf/EweEnUtDCgpn5VydyWo902oPWpmj2wL+7uNn JBbaVaE4KdsSJ+2//2rMe3qw6kevmDg6A29Lg= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: Date: Sat, 6 Feb 2010 18:00:58 -0500 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 3d21c645bfc6c29d Message-ID: <520f0cf11002061500v6cb49e23qae6cf14ae4d835b8@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.33-rc7 From: John Kacur To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1568 Lines: 37 On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 5:49 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Sat, 6 Feb 2010, Linus Torvalds wrote: >> >> But we've certainly fixed a few things, and it's been a week, so here's >> -rc7. I wish I could say that it's the last -rc, but I strongly doubt >> that, and we'll almost certainly have at least one more. > > Oh, and I forgot to ask one thing I had intended to ask in the release > notes.. > > Do people really care about the old-fashioned tar.gz and patch.gz files? > I've always uploaded the tar-files and patches compressed with gzip, > because that's the "traditional" way, and then we have a script that also > re-compresses things as 'bz2' because it compresses better and many people > are bandwidth-limited and much prefer the better compression. > > Of course, if you really care about bandwidth, you're better off just > fetching the git trees instead, but the question for non-git users is: > > ? Would it be ok to _only_ have the 'bz2' patches and tar-balls? > > Having two copies of every large file seems silly, if nobody really > requires the traditional .gz format.. > > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?Linus I mostly just use git these days, but when I do fetch something, it's always .bz2, I haven't fetched tar.gz in quite some time. Don't know if the embedded folks need tar.gz. -- 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/