Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 9763
problems downloading rawhide-release-20000218-1 from rawhide.redhat.com
Last modified: 2014-03-16 22:12:48 EDT
I don't really know how to report this problem, so I'm filing a bug against rawhide redhat-release. If there's a better way, and I suspect there is, please let me know so I'll know what to do in the future. On 2000/02/20, I downloaded a bunch of rpms from ftp://rawhide.redhat.com/rawhide/i386/RedHat/RPMS including rawhide-release-20000218-1.noarch.rpm . Today (2000/02/24), I checked the same directory and found that the files I downloaded on 2000/02/20 were gone, seemingly replaced by older versions of those files, including rawhide-release-20000212-1.noarch.rpm . I used ncftp-3.0beta21-3 on my rawhide 20000218 system connected to a cable modem: c130441-j.smateo1.sfba.home.com (24.7.95.139). So I'm left wondering if this is: - A server/network glitch by which one of the servers supporting rawhide.redhat.com got updated with out-of-date bits, or - An intentional withdrawal of the 20000218 rawhide rpms, due presumably to some sort of problems, and a reversion to the 2000/02/12 rawhide rpms. This seems unlikely to me, but if something like this were to happen, is there a Web page that I could check somewhere that would have status like this, so I wouldn't have to annoy you by filing a bug like this one?
I believe it's the first of your suggestions (we have multiple servers); we'll get this sorted out.
As of 2000/02/28, I'm still seeing the same behavior reported in the original bug. I'm reopening this bug not as a way of trying to be annoying, but just as a hopefully-efficient way to communicate that the reported problem of stale-bits-on-some-servers has not yet been resolved. For example, I'm still seeing a directory containing rawhide-release-20000212-1.noarch.rpm .
This should be fixed by now, I hope. Sorry about the delay before closing the bug...