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Re: gcc-ss-20010409 is now available
On Apr 11, 2001, "Tim Prince" <tprince@computer.org> wrote:
> Meanwhile, I wasted a lot of time downloading files including the
> complete source .rpm, only to find they all require rpm version 4.
> How does anyone install version 4, when you have to have version 4
> to unpack either the source or binary of version 4?
IIRC, there's an RPM of rpm-3.0.5 that supports RPM4 format available
as a Red Hat update for rpm.
> If rpm is not a gnu package, why is such a difficult version
> to obtain used to distribute gcc snapshots?
GCC snapshots are only distributed by the GCC project in CVS, .tar.gz
and .tar.bz2 formats. If you've got it in some other format, you got
it from someone else, over which the GCC group has no control, and
that may not be bound by the preferences of the FSF :-)
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