From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-serial@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [GIT PATCH] TTY/serial patches for 3.3-rc1
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:11:01 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120131011101.GA31748@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFxXwZmhC4USJSOk_itatwkg1m8gkQRTqKHNRGDWD8MCOw@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 04:27:22PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 4:13 PM, Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> wrote:
> >
> > Or I can spend the time to get the new version of git installed.
> > Wrestling with my scripts or rpm, I don't know which is worse...
>
> Why do either?
>
> The sane way to do things is to just
>
> cd
> mkdir src
> cd src
> git clone git://github.com/gitster/git
> cd git
> make
> make install
>
> all as a regular user. It will install in your $(HOME)/bin, so just
> put that first in the path. No need to fight rpm, no need to fight
> your scripts, you should be pretty much all done.
Nice, for some reason I thought it would do the horrible /usr/local/
thing, and get all messed up with the installed version.
Ok, now done, so much for fighting with rpm, thanks, that made my day.
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-31 1:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-30 21:12 [GIT PATCH] TTY/serial patches for 3.3-rc1 Greg KH
2012-01-30 23:19 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-01-30 23:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-01-31 0:13 ` Greg KH
2012-01-31 0:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-01-31 1:11 ` Greg KH [this message]
2012-01-31 0:12 ` Greg KH
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