Re: using bug reports on vendor kernels

Bill Rugolsky Jr. (rugolsky@ead.dsa.com)
Thu, 9 Aug 2001 17:59:51 -0400


On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 11:42:38PM +0200, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> It might do so. However the speed of my internet connectivity would make this
> a very, very slow task.
> And the day after having completed that I'd be bound to get a bug report from
> a Mandrake user.

It sounds like you want an {ftp,http,...} server that allows you to
look transparently into archives like zip, tar, cpio, rpm, etc.
Do any of the standard ones do this? (ftp certainly can *create* .tar.)

Just don't ask for it in the kernel ...

[ducks under desk :-)]

Regards,

Bill Rugolsky
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