Mark Gray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Peter Czanik writes:
>
>> Hello,
>> 
>> Mark Gray wrote:
>>> This is probably a FAQ, but I just did a search for the source code
>>> for opensuse 10.1 Beta 8.  The link on the opensuse website led me to
>>> ftp.ale.org which had only about a dozen src rpms on it.  Similar
>>> searches of higher quality mirrors led to no source directory at all.
>
>> I can speak only about my situation: lack of space and bandwidth. And 
>> forgot to mention, that /src/ generated less than 1/10000th of the 
>> download traffic, while it takes a lot of resources to keep in sync. Bye,
>
> Understandable -- but it would be nice if download.opensuse.org's
> mirrored link to the source code only pointed to mirrors which
> actually had the source.  (Just a minor irritation on such a beautiful
> spring day.)

It should, we verify this.  But if there are some packages and not
all, we cannot test that, we just check for existance of single files
or directories but not for completeness.  Which is fine if you want to
download single files - but I see, it's not optimal if you like to
browse...

Andreas
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