martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Thiemo Seufer <ica2_ts@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de> [2004.06.18.2323 +0200]: > > OTOH, the linux kernel uses this scheme for a very log time now. > > Deviating from it will break "make oldconfig dep install > > modules_install" style upgrades from upstream sources. > > Uh, if I do 'make bzimage', then the kernel installs into /boot. This would be a major bug, "make bzImage" shouldn't install anything. > The kernel used to go into /root back in the seventies and eighties, > and it still does in other OSs like solaris. > > But it doesn't in Linux, really. Then you have a different Linux than the kernel.org one. > I haven't seen it anywhere but in Debian. I remember Slackware and old SuSE, as well as IRIX and Ultrix. Thiemo
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