tar file convention

[Janina Sajka]

If you untar a kernel, it will create a directory called linux. Usually, 
you will want to move this to include the kernel version and then create a 
symlink called linux. That way, everything looking for /usr/src/linux will 
find this directory, yet you know what version of kernel you have there:

For example, here is my ls -ld in /usr/src:

lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            9 Nov 24 11:11 linux -> 
linux-2.4/
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           17 Dec 31 18:45 linux-2.4 -> 
linux-2.4.16-0.13/
drwxr-xr-x   16 root     root         1024 Dec 31 20:47 linux-2.4.16-0.13/
drwxr-xr-x   16 root     root         1024 Nov 20 08:20 linux-2.4.9-13/

On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, Richard Villa wrote:

> I want to start looking at building kernels, but a question that comes to 
> mind is, when you unpack a kernel, does it create a directory structure, 
> or do you have to create the highest level of the directory before you 
> unpack the file?
> 
> Richard
> 
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