Re: rpmfind becoming less usefull

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From: Bob Tanner (tanner@real-time.com)
Date: Fri Jun 16 2000 - 00:17:45 EDT

Quoting Harry Putnam (reader@newsguy.com):
>
>
> rpmfind is a tool I've come to appreciate highly, however,
> it seems, in recent mnths rpmfind is becoming less usefull. More
> timeouts on downloads, failure to change directories on server
> (often), when ncftpget on the same address will get the file.
>
> Out of date information:
>
> `rpmfind --latest emacs' should now find the emacs-20.7 that is on
> redhat updates. Instead it returns:

I am also disappointed that rpmfind see Mandrake packages when I run just
RedHat and that many of the packages are not where rpmfinds them. 

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