On 19/02/15 10:13, Sven Barth wrote:
> Am 19.02.2015 10:41 schrieb "Lukasz Sokol"
> <el.es...@gmail.com
> <mailto:el.es...@gmail.com>>:
>> 
>> On 18/02/15 18:18, Florian Klämpfl wrote:
>>> The linux approach is to dump a source blob onto the user.
>> 
>> And we FPC /users/ are 'suggested' to download&compile from SVN
>> (even if it's just -fixes) if whatever our upstream packager
>> provides is insufficient for whatever reason...
>> 
> 
> You know that Florian was talking about releases? For the Linux
> kernel releases are just source blobs while for us releases are
> mostly binary ones. That's a big difference. 

Yes. 
You are right.
Did I say somewhere, that switching contexts between reading here and reading 
LKML is hard ;)

> The Linux equivalent of
> us suggesting to download and compile from SVN would be to follow
> e.g. linux-next.git, do a pull every now and then and recompile and
> install the kernel.
> 

OK.

> Regards, Sven
Lukasz

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