[RFC PATCH] Switch to including config-* instead of kernel-*.config
Dave Jones
davej at redhat.com
Thu Jul 12 18:59:46 UTC 2007
On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 12:55:03PM -0400, 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.
Well, it'll catch up eventually. A lot of that documentation needs
updating almost every time we do a release anyway for some reason
or another.
Dave
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