Re: something I don't understand

[Kenneth lléphaane Christiansen <kenneth ripen dk>]

Okay here's the explanation

I am a maintainer of ftp.fi.muni.cz (aka ftp.linux.cz), which is one of the official mirrors of RedHat Linux. On the RedHat mirror-list they asked us (mirror maintainers) to mirror the 6.1 release, but to not make it available until Monday 4pm UTC. 
But: They left their FTP servers open for public downloads of the RH6.1, which does not make sense for me (they have a separate host rh-mirror.redhat.com for mirrors downloading). 

Does anybody have an explanation for this? 

-Yenya 



It would have been more polite to wait for the 
answer on the mirror list. 

This was a goof on redhat's part... they were 
going to keep it restricted until Monday. 

Anyway this is a much better state of affairs 
than the 6.0 release, which leaked from a few 
mirrors before it was available on redhat and 
before other mirrors had a chance to get it. 

Our mirror completed around midnight. I'm not 
eager to hose our bandwidth quite yet, so I'm 
keeping it private til Monday.

---
I know, but redhat often overwrites the files on ftp with newer
version at the last minute ;-)


* Kenneth lléphaane Christiansen (kenneth@ripen.dk) wrote:
> No but the directory includes 1.0.40 rpm's
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> * Kenneth lléphaane Christiansen (kenneth@ripen.dk) wrote:
> > I thought the reason why we were trying to get gnome 1.0.50 finish, was because 
> > a new redhat is comming. But gnome 1.0.50 isn't out yet, but rh6.1 in on rh ftp-site,hmm
> 
> The release isn't official yet, so there's still time...
> 
> But OTOH, when the bugs are out, they're out. No point giving them an
> unfinished version...
> 
> Tom.
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