Date: Mon, 13 Mar 1995 21:05:06 -0800 From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: nate@trout.sri.mt.net, phk@ref.tfs.com, CVS-commiters@freefall.cdrom.com, cvs-user@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/release/compat20 libgcc.so.261.0.uu Message-ID: <199503140506.VAA00563@corbin.Root.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 14 Mar 95 14:27:47 %2B1000." <199503140427.OAA10154@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>>> I doubt the GNU people would be that anal retentive, since we already >>> published the sources for the 2.0-RELEASE on the net... > >>Uhh, you are wrong about that one. They are *very* anal and retentive >>about it since they want *everyone* to be able to get the exact source >>that created the binaries. The Minix folks find this out when Bruce >>made the 1.X binaries available for minix-386 and the archive sites only >>kept the binaries and the diffs. The GNU folks said they were required > >I've never made gnu binaries available for anything. > >>to keep the sources online as well even though the sources could be gotten >>from other sites. The reasoning was the other sites would delete the >>old sources when the new versions came on line (similar to us deleting 2.0 >>when 2.1 comes on line). > >This restriction seems to have been relaxed for linux. It would take >an archaelogical expedition to find complete sources for everything. ...and a few terabytes of storage to contain all the revisions. -DG
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