Re: [oclug] rpmfind irritations (fwd)

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From: Daniel Veillard (Daniel.Veillard@w3.org)
Date: Thu May 25 2000 - 05:21:53 EDT

On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 06:13:42PM -0400, paul wrote:
>
> Normally rpmfind is awesome (http://www.rpmfind.net if you don't know what
> I'm talking about), but what's the point of putting links to src rpms that
> require authorization to download?
> I wouldn't even know who to contact about this. I was just trying to get
> the source for Gtk+ Napster at
> http://www.rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/contrib/libc6/i386/napster-0.201-1.i386.html
>
> Annoying...

  Well I'm the maintainer of rpmfind site. I do mirror the source
RPMs when available but since people using sources are usually concerned
with security I do point to the origin server for those SRPMS . In
taht case it is:
  ftp://contrib.redhat.com/pub/contrib/libc6/SRPMS/napster-0.201-1.src.rpm

Note that I was able to fetch this resouce *without* having to provide
any password so i guess there was an error somewhere, but IMHO not
on rpmfind site ...

Daniel 

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