On Thu, 28 Mar 2002, isaac wrote:
> Hi, > > I'm not familiar with the details of the mirrors and how they get > updated... but I'm confused! Are the packages currently in the ftp > mirrors the same ones that are in the 8.2b2 images? > For the most part yes. There are a few packages that I have done PPC only bugfixes and have added "dot" extensions, which are not on the mirrors. At this point in the game it becomes interesting. 8.2 x86 is a done deal, yet 8.2 x86 and PPC use the same SRPMS. x86 is now marching on towards 8.3 or 9.0 or whatever it may be called and updating things, whereas PPC is wrapping up 8.2. I don't want to use new cooker source, but simply correct any deficiencies in the 8.2 packages. I can't really make a full release change, as it may already exist in cooker, so I'm doing like the security updates: 10mdk --> 10.1mdk. At the moment though there isn't a facility for me to upload those files without impacting either the cooker or frozen 8.2 tree, so they exist only on the ISO. David is in the process of rebuilding the whole distribution against itself, at which point everything should get made current. Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/demos/PPC/FAQ/
