Re: texinfo 4.2 missing from ftp?

Thank you Vita! And unfortunately, my browser history on the original
machine doesn't go back far enough back to when I first needed texinfo 4.2,
so I don't have my original source location documented. However I did find
a sourceforge mailing archive from 2002 which lists a matching md5 to my
archive:
https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg04411.html

Unlike the Fedora texinfo, mine is a tar.gz archive, not a tar.bz2.

~Rob

On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 12:22 AM Vitezslav Crhonek <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On 1/19/23 08:12, Gavin Smith wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 18, 2023 at 01:30:01PM -0800, Rob Krum wrote:
> >> Greetings,
> >> I've noticed that texinfo release 4.2 is missing from gnu's ftp
> archives,
> >> but the manual still exists for it in the old-gnu archive. Texinfo 4.2 I
> >> believe is the latest release that can be used to make binutils 2.16.1a.
> >> I've found myself a copy, however I have nothing to prove it's a copy of
> >> the original, unmodified release. Would it be possible to add this to
> the
> >> ftp for preservation purposes? Thanks!
> >
> > I would like to get all the previous Texinfo releases if possible.  Would
> > you email me the distribution file you have off-list and any information
> > you have about its provenance?
> >
>
> Hi,
>
> Releases of texinfo used in Fedora can be found here (texinfo-4.2
> included):
> https://src.fedoraproject.org/lookaside/pkgs/texinfo/
>
> Given to Fedora guidelines they all should be unmodified. Later releases
> are stored also with signature file.
>
> Hope this helps
> Vita
>
>