Subject: Re: Varying Kernels
To: Henry B. Hotz <hotz@jpl.nasa.gov>
From: Colin Wood <cwood@ichips.intel.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 01/07/1998 18:50:42
Henry B. Hotz wrote:
> 
> Why is the kernels/netbsd-GENERIC.gz file different from the sets/kern.tgz
> file?
> 
> Oh, one's a gzipped file and the other is a gzipped tar of the same file, I
> guess.  Yes, they have the same checksum.
> 
> OK, next question:  Why do we have both of them?

Because that's the format mandated by release(7).

Later.

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Colin Wood                                 cwood@ichips.intel.com
Component Design Engineer - MD6                 Intel Corporation
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