On ���, 2002-01-26 at 15:41, Ron Stodden wrote: > Guillaume Rousse wrote: > > > Ainsi parlait Michal Bukovjan : > > > Hello list, > > > > > > is there any particular reason for the new kernel naming scheme? > > > I refer to these kernel-2.4.16.10mdk-1-1mdk names? > > > > > > Why not just 2.4.16-10mdk ? > > Look at list archive, you'll find plenty of litterature about this topic. > > -- > > Guillaume Rousse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > GPG key http://lis.snv.jussieu.fr/~rousse/gpgkey.html > > This naming change has been made without any consultation with important > users who depend on the existing naming convention. I have published > repeatedly troels.rpm5.pl to users of the cooker and expert mailing lists. > It is a script for downloading the entire set of Mandrake files, and there > are many users of this utility, because it greatly speeds up downloading by > only downloading English RPMs and by renaming RPMs which are being updated > so that rsync uses its update-in-place mode to only down;oad the changes. >
I have modified script that works with new kernel names. I sent it ones but it never appeared on cooker; I send it again on Monday. Perl regexps is fun :-) -andrej > Could we have a BNF (Backus-Naur Form) syntax diagram of the syntax and > semantics of the revised Mandrake file naming convention, please? > > troels.rpm5.pl is a free download from my web site: > > http://www.ains.net.au/~ronst > > -- > Ron. [au] > > >
