ftp site

[nathan r. hruby]

On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, John M Phillips wrote:

> When trying to download the patched version of sendmail, I was seeing
> the site ftp.yellowdoglinux.com as an alias for jungle.metalab.unc.edu.

Yup.  metalab/ibiblio is the offical ftp site for YDL.  These machiens are 
mirrored around the globe and make finding a mirror easy.  Probably a lot 
easier than being mirrored by sourceforge.  And really better than the 
crappy new RHN do-a-survey-every-60-days-for-crappy-access-to-updates 
system.

I'm pushing my campus to move to yum.  

> Further, the modification date for the sendmail rpm was given as
> 20-Sep-1956???  So I am a little paranoid.
> 

Hurm, that is odd.  If you look around the YDL website there should be a 
md5 sum for the rpm.  Ahh.. here:
http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/resources/errata/YDU-20030304-1.txt
There are also instructions for verifying the packages using rpm as well.

HTH,

-n
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