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Re: /contrib tree on ftp.redhat.com

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Trond Eivind Glomsrød)
Fri Nov 8 16:49:06 1996

To: jms@pobox.com
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 20:39:25 +0100
In-Reply-To: jms@pobox.com's message of Fri, 8 Nov 96 07:25 CST
Resent-From: redhat-list@redhat.com

jms@pobox.com (Johnie Stafford) writes:

> What is the point of the 2.2.x directories in contrib? I thought that
> 2.2 (s)rpm's went there and the RPMS directory had the older format
> rpm's. But I just downloaded several rpms from the /contrib/RPMS
> directory only to find that they are 2.2.x format. I think contrib
> needs a reorganization.

Yup. And a cleanup. There was a volunteer who used doing it some time
ago, but I suspect he hasn't got the time anymore.


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