Re: Cannot install gnus, perl-modes from Pre-Releases

APA> My problem was due to partial tar.gz files left in my $TEMP APA> from previous failed installation attempts. APA> www.xemacs.org is very busy and terminated ftp transfers APA> multiple times! Stephen> Yes. Mandrake 9.0 just came out, and tux got slashdotted---they were Stephen> delivering 4X their (nominal) allocation of 10MB/sec, and were getting Stephen> requests for 80MB/sec. In fact, their ISP is going to hard-limit Stephen> their bandwidth explicitly (to 10MB/sec) because of this. Stephen> We're going to need to think about responding to this. is there anyway we can direct people to their closest mirror automatically ?? and it would be cool if we could get the mirrors to mirror the pre-releases as well, that will require some trickyness with the package-index i think. it seems possible i just dont know how it would be done i can look into it and get back to you -- XEmacs Advocate | Do not try the patience of Wizards, FreeBSD Devote | for they are subtle and quick to anger. Perl Hacker | - Elric (Technomage) , Babylon 5. Apache God | <mailto:rendhalver at xemacs.org> <GnuPG KeyID: AE51D190>