Re: Distribution completed

[Matt & Kim <patawi@polarcom.com>]

>> >Distribution is now completed.  You can get it at
>> >ftp://cran.mit.edu/pub/independence/distribution
>> 
>> Oh! I was going to say I had problems downloading all of the rpms (couldn't
>> get any of the gnome packages) on tuesday, but I just noticed the ftp
>> address above is not the same as the one above. I was going to
>> ftp://indendance.suel.org/etc...
>> 
>> Let's see what tommorrow brings. :)
>> 
>> -matt
> 
>no, cran.mit.edu == cvs.seul.org == ftp.independence.seul.org.
>the directory you want is pub/independence/distribution/Independence/RPMS/
>
>I just checked, and the gnome packages are indeed there:
>lrwxrwxrwx   1 jfm2     jfm2                   49 Dec 24 01:49
gnome-core-0.20.1-2.i386.rpm
>lrwxrwxrwx   1 jfm2     jfm2                   47 Dec 24 01:49
gnome-libs-0.20-3.i386.rpm
>lrwxrwxrwx   1 jfm2     jfm2                   53 Dec 24 01:49
gnome-libs-devel-0.20-3.i386.rpm
>lrwxrwxrwx   1 jfm2     jfm2                   54 Dec 24 01:49
gnome-linuxconf-0.14-4rh.i386.rpm
>
>(and yes, the symlinks actually go to files)
>They appear to be normal redhat rpms, so you can probably get them from
>a redhat site as well. Specifically what errors were you getting?

File not found. I finally managed to start downloading them last night.
There were a couple of problems:

1) Me! Since I already have the Redhat rpms I just wanted the
differentials. However when I went to ./distribution/ the differential
directory was not there, so I assumed ./distribution/NoCD was the one I
wanted. I was able to download all of the rpms in that directory, except
for gnome* (file not found). Last night after re-reading Jean's message a
few times I noticed differentials were higher in the directory tree (RTFS :-)

2) Download Client: My primary OS is still Win32 (NT at work & 95 at home).
My Win32 ftp client is CuteFTP, and it was trying to CWD to the symbolic
file links. :) "Get link as file" cured this (except that I had to get each
file one at a time :(. GetRight cured this problem (hope there's similar
program for linux!))

3) The symbolic links in ./NoCD for gnome* -are- broken.

Cheers,

-matt