tar file convention

[Janina Sajka]

I don't delete my working kernel files until I'm satisifed the new build 
is doing everything I want. That's my SOP. In this case, I just haven't 
gotten around to nuking the 2.4.9 source tree.
 On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, Gregory 
Nowak wrote:

> 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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				Janina Sajka, Director
				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

Email: janina at afb.net		Phone: (202) 408-8175

Chair, Accessibility SIG
Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF)
http://www.openebook.org