-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 October 15, 2003 10:25 am, rikona wrote: > Hello Derek, > > Wednesday, October 15, 2003, 1:48:49 AM, you wrote: > > DJ> Just a heads up. > DJ> Even though Mandrake 9.2 only came out yesterday I have noticed that > DJ> 9.1/contrib has **already** been deleted from my favourite mirror > DJ> (rediris.es) > > This was the topic I brought up a short time ago before 9.2 came out. > I was worried 9.1 code would disappear quickly. The same thing > happened when 9.1 came out (I was till trying to get 9.0 running). I > finally switched to 9.1 because it was too hard to get the 9.0 > programs I was looking for. > > List members were reassuring me that the 9.1 code would be around for > a while and there would be no problems getting 9.1 code when 9.2 came > out. > > Maybe it's not as easy as everyone was suggesting. :-)
Maybe it's a matter of looking for it? The admins of the voluntary mirrors have to count cost as well as anyone else so not all are going to keep the full tree of older versions. Some will though. Such as ftp://ftp.ciril.fr/pub/linux/mandrake/9.1/ For anyone that wants longer access to contrib directories for "non-current" versions there's always local mirroring with rsync. The entire tree for almost any recent Mandrake Linux release, main, contrib and SRPMS is around 10 GB. If you can afford the bandwidth and the time it might make sense. Regards; Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User 244963 at http://counter.li.org Cooker on kernel 2.4.22-10mdk 11:44:26 up 25 days, 1:07, 1 user, load average: 0.27, 0.09, 0.05 "If there isn't a population problem, why is the government putting cancer in the cigarettes?" - -- the elder Steptoe, c. 1970 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/jYmrG11CaRuZZSIRAqKPAJ4xnSX3U4TTcUO/QA+fz+EZTnTHXwCfd7PB V6+tpkppKZw/4dCH7O8h62U= =DRTK -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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