tar file convention

[Gregory Nowak]

Why do you have different kernel versions in there?
Greg


On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 09:32:51PM -0500, Janina Sajka wrote:
> 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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