[KLUG Members] Whaddya gotta do these days....

[Bruce Smith]

> {additonal ranting removed}

Thank goodness!!!  ;-)

> >> After fussing around with Red Hat's site I went to ibiblio.org
> >> and found what I wanted in about 4 minutes...
> >> http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/
> >>      redhat/7.3/en/os/i386/SRPMS
> >I found it at redhat.com.  Didn't seem that hard to me.
> >ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/7.3/en/os/i386/SRPMS/
> 
> I discovered this link, and some others, but if you look at the 
> contents of the directory, it's rather incomplete. I think the
> ibiblio.org directory has a lot more content.

I did a "dir" and it listed a bunch of files.

Can you give an example of a RPM that comes on Redhat 7.3, that 
does not have a corresponding SRPM file in Redhat's directory?

Remember that many SRPM files create multiple RPM files, so a file 
count comparison between RPMS & SRPMS is meaningless.

> Sorry, it's not enough to have this directory,

Sorry, but it's not enough to make such claims without any specific
examples or proof.  (at least not enough to convince me)

> but it actually
> has torepresent the distro. I think some SRPMs are missing from
> the redhat.com directories, or they have partitioned up the 
> directires in some very inconvenient ways.

Proof please!

> I'm showing my advanced age, perhaps my memory of the Red Hat
> site from days gone by (no, not back in Harding administration:)
> where one could find, fairly easily where this stuff was. I
> think Bruce frequents this site more than I.

I don't frequent the SRPM directory very often at all.

You may very well be correct, but for the Missouri people on this list,
please SHOW ME specific examples to back up your outrageous claim!  :-)

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Bruce Smith                bruce@armintl.com
System Administrator / Network Administrator
Armstrong International, Inc.
Three Rivers, Michigan  49093  USA
http://www.armstrong-intl.com/
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