Re: [kernel.org users] XZ Migration discussion

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Tue Feb 16 2010 - 09:58:29 EST


On Sat, 2010-02-13 at 19:49 +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:

> BTW, who still downloads full kernel tarballs? From my experience, that's mostly
> distro people who have scripts to build kernels from tarballs + a
> bunch of patches?

When I download to develop, I use git. When I just want to install the
latest kernel on a box (not used for development) I use ketchup
(downloads tarballs).

For those that just want the latest kernel release, git is too bloated.

-- Steve


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