Hi Luke, A few comments:
a) RH 9 is now about 2 years old, and is definitely unsupported by now (by RH). Those patches you are referring to are probably a year old... I think that even the Fedora Legacy project may have given up on RH9. I will leave it to you to check... many people have moved on. b) The patches you are downloading are binary, not source, so the comments are already removed :-) (This begs the question, why donīt they distribute binary patches instead of making you download the whole program again. I donīt have an answer to this... every now and then I hear that someone is working on it.) c) not many people use up2date any more. Check out yum or apt instead (see http://www.atrpms.net/install.html for an overview of why this is better). Regarding where you can get CDs for updates, Iīve bought CDs from www.linuxcd.org (really cheap). I have also bought CDs from Netcraft Australia in the past (http://www.netcraft.com.au/linux/ordering.php ), which came with the updates already included in the base install. However, I donīt know if they still do this. Also, their latest offerings seem to be a bit old. Linux updates is one of the reasons that tipped me to go to ADSL... see www.exetel.com.au for lowest prices I found. Now I can just update without worrying about it. Ben. On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 18:38, Luke G. Evans wrote: > Hi. > > I recently installed Red Hat 9 and am intending to burn my MS disks in > unholy ritual. > > However the up2date feature of RHN requires me to download 434MB of source > code to be current - this is just absurd over 56k. > > Do you know of a service where this disk can be purchased regularly in Aus? > > Also - why don't they have a feature whereby the source can be parsed into > 'code only' format - devoid of comments (assuming Linux software guys are > using comments) and long variable names (export/extern variables of course > would remain consistent) which would undoubtedly shrink these update > massively. > > Thanks for your guidance. > > Luke -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
