"Packages with size - are either still alpha or can be
 downloaded from the official package download page."

its an artifact of how the index html file is maintained
its part hard-wired and part scripted at post time

aside from being too lazy to re-script and re-document
beta update procedures, it does have the benefit of listing
the packages that were once beta and could be again

thanks

On Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:20:36 +0100 Henk Langeveld wrote:
> Glenn Fowler:
> >
> > the AT&T Software Technology ast beta 2012-02-02 source release
> > has been posted to the download site
> >          http://www.research.att.com/sw/download/beta/
> > the package names and md5 checksums are
> >              INIT  30853909300f84c8a6f626254e57b053
> >          ast-base  46ae4c244b78954eac95be4829aad108
> >          ast-open  bf6f06f5468b84756cc52de7a1f0cfe4
> >           ast-gpl  6236c8daecd733c29bc5b7c73a2f59a7
> >           ast-ksh  3b0aeb4405b8e1fb4ee783c01ee01271
> >         ast-jmake  4165d2f25365a6a59ae827a0fd4a79a5
> > the md5 sums should match the ones listed on the download page
> > if not then don't download

> Thanks Glenn,

> Appreciated, again...

> With one comment: That page still contains some stale links for some 
> UWIN archives - maybe those should be removed or updated?

> uwin-xbase.2010-12-12.win32.i386-64.exe         -       -       uwin xbase 
> beta 
> self extracting archive
> uwin-xdev.2009-12-18.win32.i386-64.exe          -       -       uwin xdev 
> beta 
> self extracting archive
> uwin-xfonts.2009-12-18.win32.i386-64.exe        -       -       uwin xfonts 
> beta self extracting archive
> uwin-groff.2009-12-18.win32.i386-64.exe         -       -       uwin groff 
> beta 
> self extracting archive
> uwin-perl.2009-12-18.win32.i386-64.exe          -       -       uwin perl 
> beta 
> self extracting archive

> These all generate 410 errors:

> Error 410

> download/beta/uwin-xbase.2010-12-12.win32.i386-64.exe: package not found 
> -- check for a newer/different release

> Likewise, the groff and perl archives are missing for the 32bit UWIN 
> platform.

> Regards,

> Henk

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