[RFC PATCH] Switch to including config-* instead of kernel-*.config

Chuck Ebbert cebbert at redhat.com
Thu Jul 12 16:55:03 UTC 2007


On 07/12/2007 12:36 PM, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 09:29:08AM -0400, Jarod Wilson wrote:
>  > I'm going to assume you're asking "why doesn't davej like that idea",
>  > since the mv desire is probably obvious (compliance w/packaging
>  > standards). Basically, because cvs sucks, and all revision history goes
>  > bye-bye if we do the move. Though really... Dave, how big a deal is that
>  > really if we do it this early in rawhide? You can always go to the attic
>  > if you *really* need to see some historical info on the spec, and we'll
>  > have plenty built back up by the time we get to F8...
> 
> Probably not so big a deal if we do it right now I guess.
> It's been handy in the past for "it broke somewhere between 1.2345 and
> 1.2367", but tbh now that we have sensible versioning, that at least
> partially solves that probably without the need for cvs annotate.
> 
> Feel free to rename it, but be sure to fix up all the scripts/makefiles too.

Maybe not such a good idea, since lots of external documentation refers
to 'kernel-2.6.spec' as well.




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