Hi all,
On 14.03.2012, at 22:20, René Rebe wrote:
> Hi Roger,
>
> On Mar 14, 2012, at 9:46 PM, Roger Mason wrote:
>
>> Hi Rene,
>>
>> On 14-Mar-12, at 8:22 AM, René Rebe wrote:
>>
>>> Hey all,
>>>
>>> I have a Request For Comment: Since the unforeseen version bump of the
>>> Linux kernel from 2.6.x to 3.x, ... our primary OS kernel package "limux26"
>>> is a little misnamed.
>>>
>>> If the rename would be easy, I would have long renamed the linux26 pkg to
>>> linxu3, ... but it requires touching much more than a dozen files, ...
>>>
>>> While thinking we should finally address this, I came to the conclusion I
>>> would like to delete the quite obsolete linux24 package, and rename the
>>> linux26 package just "linux".
>>>
>>> Any thoughts on this?
>>>
>>> René
>>
>> I have no problem with this, but my response is, perhaps, naiive as I don't
>> understand what consequences there may be, if any.
>
>
> For one thing this was to find out if anyone screams about loosing "linux24"
> :-) A rename of the majorly used package "linux" means many other, e.g.
> architecture and target overloads, need to be adapted, etc., … not to mention
> shared file conflicts on user systems when they emerge an update which will
> clash between "linux26" and "linux", … though "linux" without number prefix
> is much nicer, matches to the "linux-header" package, … and is certainly nice
> in the long run.
I even "forgot" we already removed the "very old" linux24 packages :-) So now
all this linux26 stuff should have been renamed to just "linux":
Committed revision 40366.
Committed revision 40367.
Enjoy! Some minor missing bits and pieces are to be expected, patches welcome!
René
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