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

Jarod Wilson jwilson at redhat.com
Thu Jul 12 19:22:17 UTC 2007


Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> 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.

With luck, people will be bright enough to figure it out... :)

But we can do a possible spec name change separate from the proposed
config changes. Speaking of which, they were just checked in (blame
davej, he said 'do it').

-- 
Jarod Wilson
jwilson at redhat.com


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