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

R> is there anyway we can direct people to their closest mirror R> automatically ?? Stephen> Not easily, and probably not at all with rsync (which we don't use on Stephen> Tux) and FTP. Some of our "mirrors" don't even stay up to date, too; Stephen> we'd need to spend a bit of effort on quality control. R> and it would be cool if we could get the mirrors to mirror the R> pre-releases as well Stephen> Pre-releases aren't a bandwidth problem. Many people who would have Stephen> used prereleases in the past just build from the CVS trunk instead. Stephen> On the other hand, if they end up hanging around on poorly-maintained Stephen> mirrors they can cause a problem. yeah good point hadnt thought of that Stephen> I don't know how much bandwidth XEmacs uses at Tux, but the killer is Stephen> the damn Linux distro ISO images. When it comes to bandwidth, Stephen> Windows, Red Hat, SuSE and Mandrake all just suck hard. :-) i could add a comment here but im sure everyone will know what i was going to say anyway all im going to say is use an OS you can build from cvs :) -- 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>