Agreed Charles!  Let's put the "are they really there or not?" question
to bed.  If "ls -R cd-mnt-point | grep package-name"  can't see them,
they are not there.  The question now is: "What does Mandrake do about
it?"

Whatever they decide is probably OK with me.  I am most annoyed right
now by the deafening silence!  Surely a "Yes, we know there's a problem
and we are looking at the best way to address it" could at least be
forthcoming!

Wake up Mandrake!  Your customers are expecting a response.  It's one
thing to screw up a delivery - something else altogether to say nothing
and let people get madder and madder in the absence of any
acknowledgment.

Brian

On Thu, 2002-05-09 at 05:24, Charles Griffin wrote:
> There is no reason to be suspicious.  Did you read
> those posts?  There were about a half a dozen people
> reporting the same thing.  I saw that post and so I
> did my own search of all 7 of my Powerpack CD's.  Sure
> enough, those packages are missing.  No eroaster, no
> slocate, no hdparm, and more.
> 
> I am a huge Mandrake fan and my 8.2 is running great. 
> I think I will always run Mandrake as opposed to
> another distro.  I know I can get those rpms from
> rpmfind.net or from cooker sites.  I'm just a little
> annoyed that I didn't get everything that I paid for. 
> 
> 
> It's the point of it, that's what bothers me.
> 
> 
> --- Michael Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Wednesday 08 May 2002 1:21 am, Derek Jennings
> > wrote:
> > > Check out this post on Mandrake user
> > > http://www.club-nihil.net/mub/viewtopic.php?t=366
> > >
> > > This guy says that he has found 318 RPMs present
> > on the Mandrake 8.2
> > > download edition which are missing from the
> > Powerpack.
> > >
> > > One of them is slocate which I recall Kaj saying
> > last week he could not
> > > locate on his CD's
> > >
> > > If you do find RPMs missing, you can of course
> > download them from
> > > www.rpmfind.net
> > >
> > >
> > > derek
> > 
> > When i first installed 8.2 i chose to install open
> > source only, so i limited
> > myself to three CD's off the powerpack, but clicked
> > on everything to install
> > except for DNS server RPM's. I was confused when i
> > went in and couldn't find
> > freeciv or OpenOffice.org. Turns out they were both
> > on the commercial disks,
> > and i had ignored the commercial disks as sources.
> > 
> > The first trip through "Mandrake Update", i grew a
> > beard while it was setting
> > up its database, found them all for me. Honestly,
> > too many people would pull
> > out of that program beleiving it had locked up when
> > they instead should go
> > and make a coffee while it sets itself up. It is
> > worth it in the long run. I
> > am not saying this is what this guy did but i am
> > suspicious.
> > 
> > --
> > Michael
> > 
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> > 
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> > 
> 
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