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Date:      Fri, 08 Sep 2006 14:53:04 -0600
From:      Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org>
To:        Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
Cc:        cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/release Makefile src/release/scripts kernels-install.sh
Message-ID:  <4501D830.5090704@samsco.org>
In-Reply-To: <20060908205029.GA99346@freebie.xs4all.nl>
References:  <200609081954.k88JsbdS028442@repoman.freebsd.org> <20060908205029.GA99346@freebie.xs4all.nl>

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Wilko Bulte wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 07:54:37PM +0000, Ruslan Ermilov wrote..
> 
>>ru          2006-09-08 19:54:37 UTC
>>
>>  FreeBSD src repository
>>
>>  Modified files:
>>    release              Makefile 
>>    release/scripts      kernels-install.sh 
>>  Log:
>>  Stop cutting the tarball names to eight symbols.  This makes
>>  it possible to e.g. distribute kernels with config names larger
>>  than eight symbols, without the clash.  Previousy, LALALALA
>>  and LALALALA-SMP would be the same tarball.  (I think this
>>  comes from the old days where tarballs were put on the MS-DOS
>>  formatted diskettes.)
> 
> 
> Or non-RockRidge CDs I think.
> 

The unavailability/immaturity of VFAT, RR, and Joliet were all
considerations at the time.

Scott




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