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On Wed, 2003-03-19 at 22:12, Tigran Aivazian wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Mar 2003, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > i) Does this sound reasonable to everyone? In particular, is there any
> > loss in losing the "original" compressed files?
>=20
> No, there is at least one reason for the "original" .gz files. Here are=20
> the logical steps:
>=20
> a) any Linux distribution contains their own "linux" package with the=20
> source base being "vanilla" Linux .tar.gz file
I can't speak for the others, but Red Hat Linux uses the .bz2 files in
kernel rpms
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