[3358] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Contrib tree
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Trond Eivind Glomsrød)
Fri Nov 8 07:17:55 1996
To: Paul Branston <apbran@rannoch.demon.co.uk>
Cc: redhat-list@redhat.com
Reply-To: teg@stud.imf.unit.no
From: teg@stud.imf.unit.no (Trond Eivind Glomsrød)
Date: 08 Nov 1996 08:24:08 +0100
In-Reply-To: Paul Branston's message of Fri, 8 Nov 1996 00:02:23 +0000 (GMT)
Resent-From: redhat-list@redhat.com
Paul Branston <apbran@rannoch.demon.co.uk> writes:
> Its alright saying use a mirror, I would if I could but the contrib part
> of the tree doesn't seem to be mirrored these days.
Many sites do mirror it- e.g. ftp.funet.fi and ftp.nvg.unit.no
> Is this a policy or just by accident ?
It's big. And since programs only seem to enter it, it only gets
bigger (a cleanup, including removal of old versions of programs, is
long due).
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