I have found that several of the links on their web site (in their
errata/updates section) are bad also. I don't know why, but I suspect it's
just sloppy work.
Or maybe this is how they reduce the load on their FTP server. ;>
-----Original Message-----
From: Pete Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sunday, May 21, 2000 6:55 AM
Subject: Bad FTP paths in RedHat Announcements
>
>Does anybody know why nearly all the paths in recent postings on
>'linux-security' 'redhat-announce-list' give paths that don't exist?
>
>For example, the kerberos announcement has:
>--------------------
>Red Hat Linux 6.2:
>
>intel:
>ftp://ftp.redhat.com/6.2/i386/krb5-configs-1.1.1-16.i386.rpm
>ftp://ftp.redhat.com/6.2/i386/krb5-devel-1.1.1-16.i386.rpm
>ftp://ftp.redhat.com/6.2/i386/krb5-libs-1.1.1-16.i386.rpm
>ftp://ftp.redhat.com/6.2/i386/krb5-server-1.1.1-16.i386.rpm
>ftp://ftp.redhat.com/6.2/i386/krb5-workstation-1.1.1-16.i386.rpm
>--------------------
>and the Netscape 4.73, SGML tools, and Samba 2.0.7 packages had similar
>paths referring to nonexistent "5.2" and/or "6.2" directories at
>ftp.redhat.com. I got errors when I cut out the FTP paths and tried
>inserting into rpm, wget or ncftpget commands. Checking by logging
>in with ftp, I found that the "6.2" and "5.2" directories didn't exist
>at the path indicated.
>
>Shouldn't these paths be something like:
>"ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/updates/6.2/<arch>/<pkgfile>"?
>Were there previously some links that are now missing?
>
>
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