On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, you wrote:
> Dear friends:
>
> I have been meaning to ask this for some time.
>
> If you go to ftp.rpmfind.net, then switch to linux/Mandrake/6.1, you
> find yourself facing two directories, the Mandrake directory that hold
> all of Mandrake rpms, etc. and the Red Hat directory that seems to hold
> all of Red Hat's rpms, etc. I notice that all of the "Red Hat" rpms in
> this Mandrake/6.1/RedHat directory are optimized 586 files. Could
> someone please explain to me what is the difference between the
> Mandrake/6.1/Red Hat 586 rpms and the Mandrake/6.1/Mandrake 586 rpms?
> What is Red Hat, optimized or not, doing in Mandrake, anyway?
>
I believe that it's there because some systems still want a "RedHat"
directory. I can't be sure, of course, but I'm thinking that the
"RedHat" directory is a symlink to the Mandrake directory. An easy
way to check that is to open two ftp windows go to the "RedHat"
directory in one and the "Mandrake" directory in the other and see if
the file list isn't EXACTLY the same. :-)
John
