[expert] Where are ALL the SRPMS?

2000-08-26 Thread Fergal Daly
Hi, I've searched the archives of the mailing lists and seen this question arise several times but it doesn't seem to have ever been answered properly! Either the question has been ignored or the link provided isn't any use. The SRPMS directory on the mirror sites only has about 100 pa

Re: [expert] Where are ALL the SRPMS?

2000-08-29 Thread Fergal Daly
At 22:22 29/08/00, Svante Signell wrote: >How many SRPMS for MDK-7.1 do you find at: > ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/Linux/distributions/mandrake/SRPMS/ About 150, whereas there should be more like 1000, eg there are no XFree86 packages there and also the wine rpm is missing. >You are referring to th

Re: [expert] Where are ALL the SRPMS?

2000-08-30 Thread Fergal Daly
At 08:56 30/08/00, you wrote: >Submitted 30-Aug-00 by Fergal Daly: > > > About 150, whereas there should be more like 1000, eg there are no XFree86 > > packages there and also the wine rpm is missing. > >Actually there should be quite a bit less than 1,000. Many SRPMS

Re: [expert] Where are ALL the SRPMS?

2000-08-30 Thread Fergal Daly
At 10:43 30/08/00, you wrote: >I'm not sure if this is the case but maybe Mandrake only supply the source >code >to packages they modify? For the packages that aren't modified (ie. only >recompiled to i586 form) then the source code to the RedHat versions would be >just as good, available at any

Re: [expert] Where are ALL the SRPMS?

2000-08-31 Thread Fergal Daly
At 06:42 31/08/00, you wrote: >On Wed Aug 30, 2000 at 11:42:12PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Try the mirror here. It's usually fast and upto date: > > http://n3meq.dynip.com .. Pj > >Looks like it's just a mirror for cooker and contribs... the SRPMS in >question are for the 7.1 release.