From owner-cvs-user Mon Mar 13 21:09:17 1995 Return-Path: cvs-user-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id VAA00471 for cvs-user-outgoing; Mon, 13 Mar 1995 21:09:17 -0800 Received: from Root.COM (implode.Root.COM [198.145.90.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id VAA00447; Mon, 13 Mar 1995 21:07:57 -0800 Received: from corbin.Root.COM (corbin.Root.COM [198.145.90.18]) by Root.COM (8.6.8/8.6.5) with ESMTP id VAA09359; Mon, 13 Mar 1995 21:06:23 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by corbin.Root.COM (8.6.11/8.6.5) with SMTP id VAA00563; Mon, 13 Mar 1995 21:06:22 -0800 Message-Id: <199503140506.VAA00563@corbin.Root.COM> X-Authentication-Warning: corbin.Root.COM: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: Bruce Evans 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 In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 14 Mar 95 14:27:47 +1000." <199503140427.OAA10154@godzilla.zeta.org.au> From: David Greenman Reply-To: davidg@Root.COM Date: Mon, 13 Mar 1995 21:05:06 -0800 Sender: cvs-user-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk >>> 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