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

[Jarod Wilson]

Dave Jones wrote:
> 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.

And just to be clear, I was only proposing this for rawhide, at least
for the time being.

-- 
Jarod Wilson
jwilson at redhat.com


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