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Re: debian-devel-digest Digest V98 #69



Hi,

	A touch, a touch, a most palpable touch! Yes, I shall modify
 the kernel-package documentation; thanks for pointing it out.

	manoj
 slightly mortified

>>"David" == David Welton <davidw@gate.cks.com> writes:

David> Given the following, maybe it is necessary to file a bug with
David> the doc packages?  It seems that Manoj is technically right,
David> but people will probably continue to file bugreports and be
David> confused given the switch from /usr/src/ to /usr/local/src, if
David> more is not done to educate them both locally and upstream.

>> From the Kernel-HOWTO:

David> Now, in /usr/src, unpack the source with `tar zxpvf linux-
David> x.y.z.tar.gz' (if you've just got a .tar file with no .gz at
David> the end, `tar xpvf linux-x.y.z.tar' works.).  The contents of
David> the source will fly by. When finished, there will be a new
David> `linux' directory in /usr/src.

David> And with the kernel package as well: (from the README file).

David> INSTALLING the kernel: If you install the full sources, do a cd
David> /usr/src gzip -cd linux-2.0.XX.tar.gz | tar xfv -

David> Ciao,

-- 
 "Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom, Justice
 is what comes out of a courtroom." Clarence Darrow
Manoj Srivastava  <srivasta@acm.org> <http://www.datasync.com/%7Esrivasta/>
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