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Doing a compare of packages btwn Slackware 9.0 vs
the new 9.1rc at ftp.kpn.be mirror, I see some strange
content/convention changes. It seems that 9.1 will
have some new arrangements. The most obvious being
the i386 move to i486.

I assume that some of the pkg duplication I see at
the mirror are due to overlaying new pkg version with
the old ones in the slackware-current tree...

But one I cant explain is what is going on with a/sed-x.xx...

The version in 9.0 was sed-4.0.5-i386.tgz (3/03).
There are now 2 versions of sed at kpn for 9.1, both version number
regressed: sed-3.02-i486.tgz (9/03) and sed-3.60-i386.tgz (5/03)
The latest 3.02 pkg dated 9/03 is less than half the size of either
the 4.0.5 Slackware 9.0 package or the older 3.60 Slackware 9.1 one.

What is going on?

TonYB

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On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 11:28:59PM -0700, Joaco wrote:

> There are now 2 versions of sed at kpn for 9.1, both version number
> regressed: sed-3.02-i486.tgz (9/03) and sed-3.60-i386.tgz (5/03)
> The latest 3.02 pkg dated 9/03 is less than half the size of either
> the 4.0.5 Slackware 9.0 package or the older 3.60 Slackware 9.1 one.

> What is going on?

ftp.kpn.be is having diskspace problems.
(so they have told me since i no longer work there.

one of the other mirrors on it is going nuts actually, filling up the
disk. the result is that when (and if) the slackware-current rsyn
runs, it will run out of space, and about wherever it is. leaving
duplicate packages there, not removing the old ones.

i think that's what you're seeing right now.

so, yes, you may see strange things on the kpn.be mirror until this
issue has been fixed.


Jurgen.

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> What is going on?
Bellow quote from Slackware current changelog.

a/sed-3.02-i486-1.tgz: Switched to sed-3.02 with a patch from IBM to support
multibyte characters found here:
http://oss.software.ibm.com/develope.../patches/i18n/
This was done because both super-sed and the 4.x branch of GNU sed have some
serious performance and regex bugs. I'd meant to revert super-sed before,
and remembered when it caused the lvm build to fail...

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> > There are now 2 versions of sed at kpn for 9.1, both version number
> > regressed: sed-3.02-i486.tgz (9/03) and sed-3.60-i386.tgz (5/03)
> > The latest 3.02 pkg dated 9/03 is less than half the size of either
> > the 4.0.5 Slackware 9.0 package or the older 3.60 Slackware 9.1 one.
>
> > What is going on?
>
> ftp.kpn.be is having diskspace problems.
> (so they have told me since i no longer work there.
>
> one of the other mirrors on it is going nuts actually, filling up the
> disk. the result is that when (and if) the slackware-current rsyn
> runs, it will run out of space, and about wherever it is. leaving
> duplicate packages there, not removing the old ones.

true, we suffered from some disk space shortage and after that we had
some trouble getting everything synced again, ftp.slackware.com only
allows simulteanous 25 rsync sessions, they're often all in use.

anyway, everything is in sync right now and we're going to keep it that
way. we'll be moving to a new system with more storage, probably before
the end of this year. sorry about the inconsistencies.

and oh btw, the company is changing names (kpn->scarlet) so the hostname
may change too, which is a pity because it became quite famous


bart
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On 26 Sep 2003 21:23:03 GMT, Bart Dumon <bart@crossbar.net> wrote:
> anyway, everything is in sync right now and we're going to keep it that
> way. we'll be moving to a new system with more storage, probably before
> the end of this year. sorry about the inconsistencies.

Thanks for the update, Jurgen & Bart.

> and oh btw, the company is changing names (kpn->scarlet) so the hostname
> may change too, which is a pity because it became quite famous

Damn. ftp.kpn.be is the shortest Slackware mirror FTP server name I
know about.


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