Re: Contributing to redhat?

Primoz Peterlin <[email protected]> Fri, 30 Aug 2002 17:21:54 +0200 (METDST)
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Hello,

On Fri, 30 Aug 2002, Rex Dieter wrote:

> > * ftp://incoming.redhat.com/ doesn't seem to have a /libc6 directory
> >   (while it does seem to haev a /libc5 directory, as of today)
> Can't speak for you, but I see a /libc6 directory, and I've uploaded item=
s
> to it as recently as a month ago.

Thank you for answering my question.

OK, I was wrong. /libc6 does exist, it just doesn't accept any files.
Please see the transcript, where I first unsuccessfully tried to upload a
file. OK, so perhaps I cannot upload it, because a file with same name
(uploaded by me months ago?) is there already, and I cannot write over it.
So I tried to *dowlnoad* it (to another directory), also without success.

I guess this doesn't prove anything, since the incoming directory is
probably set without reading permission to stop the warez guys. But
anyway, not being able to write to the incoming directory means either: a)
the upload process is broken, or b) the files are just heaping there,
instead of being transferred to contrib.redhat.com.

I just checked that b) was correct. So I would rephrase my original
question as:

Who is responsible for the transfer from incoming.redhat.com to
contrib.redhat.com, and why isn't he doing his work?

With kind regards,
Primoz

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