Re: Kernel source tree splitting

From: Chuck Ebbert (76306.1226@compuserve.com)
Date: Thu May 01 2003 - 06:54:03 EST


Martin J. Bligh wrote:

>> So there are many edits that needed to be done in lots of
>> Kconfig and Makefiles if one selectively pulls or omits certain
>> sub-directories.
>
> Indeed, I ran across the same thing a while back. Would be *really* nice to
> fix, if only so some poor sod over a modem can download a smaller tarball,
> or save some diskspace.

 I have seven source trees on disk right now. Getting rid off all
the archs but i386 would not only save tons of space, it would also
make 'grep -r' go faster and stop spewing irrelevant hits for archs
that I couldn't care less about.

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 Chuck
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