Re: gcc-ss-20010409 is now available

["Tim Prince" <tprince at computer dot org>]

Thanks; an rpm-3.0.5 did the job.  I'm not looking a gift horse in the
mouth, if people who make the snapshots more accessible than on gnu
mirrors choose to use .rpm format, I can run linux long enough to unpack
it.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alexandre Oliva" <aoliva@redhat.com>
To: "Tim Prince" <tprince@computer.org>
Cc: "Phil Edwards" <pedwards@disaster.jaj.com>; <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 1:39 PM
Subject: 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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