Re: [Cooker] cooker/Mandrake/RPMS2 = contrib/RPMS ??

2001-07-27 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach »Ron Stodden« am 2001-07-27 um 22:41:53 +1000 : The few symlinks that are there (except the one in the subject) are not used or critical to anyone wanting to download any of the trees or iso images. In how far can a symlink be critical? And why is RPMS.cooker - RPMS non-critical?

Re: [Cooker] cooker/Mandrake/RPMS2 = contrib/RPMS ??

2001-07-27 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Friday 27 July 2001 05:23, Ron Stodden wrote: Alexander Skwar wrote: So sprach »Ron Stodden« am 2001-07-26 um 22:36:41 +1000 : This no doubt is to specify the division into two CDs of each install tree, with RPMS2 being the second CD. Wrong. Having a look at ftp.proxad.net will

Re: [Cooker] cooker/Mandrake/RPMS2 = contrib/RPMS ??

2001-07-27 Thread Ron Stodden
Peter Ruskin wrote: On Friday 27 July 2001 05:23, Ron Stodden wrote: Mandrake cannot put any soft or hard links into any of their download trees because people starting off usually have to use a Windows downloader which knows nothing of any linking concept. Errhrrmmm. What about

Re: [Cooker] cooker/Mandrake/RPMS2 = contrib/RPMS ??

2001-07-27 Thread Ron Stodden
Alexander Skwar wrote: So sprach »Ron Stodden« am 2001-07-27 um 14:23:39 +1000 : Mandrake cannot put any soft or hard links into any of their download trees because people starting off usually have to use a Windows downloader which knows nothing of any linking concept. Sorry? In

Re: [Cooker] cooker/Mandrake/RPMS2 = contrib/RPMS ??

2001-07-27 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach »Ron Stodden« am 2001-07-27 um 14:23:39 +1000 : Mandrake cannot put any soft or hard links into any of their download trees because people starting off usually have to use a Windows downloader which knows nothing of any linking concept. Sorry? In Cooker, there always was (and is)

Re: [Cooker] cooker/Mandrake/RPMS2 = contrib/RPMS ??

2001-07-27 Thread David Walluck
Alexander Skwar wrote: In how far can a symlink be critical? And why is RPMS.cooker - RPMS non-critical? I don't understand... Alexander Skwar I believe that he is saying because there's an actual directory there as well. RPMS-real directory RPMS.cooker-symlink Even ncftp and lftp

[Cooker] cooker/Mandrake/RPMS2 = contrib/RPMS ??

2001-07-26 Thread Takacs Sandor
Hello! I have a little mirror of Cooker and contrib from sunsite.uio.no. I find a new dir RPMS2 in Cooker. It is a full copy of contribs. Why? -- Takika

Re: [Cooker] cooker/Mandrake/RPMS2 = contrib/RPMS ??

2001-07-26 Thread Ron Stodden
Takacs Sandor wrote: I have a little mirror of Cooker and contrib from sunsite.uio.no. I find a new dir RPMS2 in Cooker. It is a full copy of contribs. Why? This is definitely not so as of 60 seconds ago. What mirroring tool did you use? With what parameters? Did you mirror

Re: [Cooker] cooker/Mandrake/RPMS2 = contrib/RPMS ??

2001-07-26 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach »Ron Stodden« am 2001-07-26 um 22:36:41 +1000 : This no doubt is to specify the division into two CDs of each install tree, with RPMS2 being the second CD. Wrong. Having a look at ftp.proxad.net will show you that RPMS2 in fact is a link to the contrip RPMS directory. Just like I

Re: [Cooker] cooker/Mandrake/RPMS2 = contrib/RPMS ??

2001-07-26 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach »Warly« am 2001-07-26 um 12:28:15 +0200 : I have set the link on hour primary mirror, but may need to be changed given What's the primary mirror? your specific mirror. Moreover if you mirror tool remirror everything, you'd better check that links are preserved not to have this

Re: [Cooker] cooker/Mandrake/RPMS2 = contrib/RPMS ??

2001-07-26 Thread Ron Stodden
Alexander Skwar wrote: So sprach »Ron Stodden« am 2001-07-26 um 22:36:41 +1000 : This no doubt is to specify the division into two CDs of each install tree, with RPMS2 being the second CD. Wrong. Having a look at ftp.proxad.net will show you that RPMS2 in fact is a link to the contrip

Re: [Cooker] cooker/Mandrake/RPMS2 = contrib/RPMS ??

2001-07-26 Thread Salane King
Look in ftp://ftp.uio.no/linux/Mandrake-devel/cooker/i586/Mandrake/ You will find that it is the case -- Salane King ICQ# 306324

Re: [Cooker] cooker/Mandrake/RPMS2 = contrib/RPMS ??

2001-07-26 Thread Warly
Takacs Sandor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello! I have a little mirror of Cooker and contrib from sunsite.uio.no. I find a new dir RPMS2 in Cooker. It is a full copy of contribs. Why? These are link for the install that now handle contrib. There is however a problem