Re: procps-1.01 fix announcement [OFFTOPIC]

joost witteveen (joost@rulcmc.leidenuniv.nl)
Mon, 30 Jun 1997 15:53:12 +0200 (CEST)

> Florian La Roche writes:
> > There is a procps 1.12.2 or newer in the current debian. I think those
> > things are also fixed in that version.
> > I would also recommend to add this to the software-list that should be
> > updated for the current kernel.
> >
> > ftp://ftp.debian.org/pub/debian/hamm/hamm/source/base/procps* or
> > ftp://ftp.debian.org/pub/debian/unstable/source/base/procps*
>
> Any chance these will appear on tsx-11 or sunsite in plain tar.gz
> form? Having things encoded as *.deb or *.rpm is not as helpful as it
> could be...

ftp> dir proc*
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls.
-rw-rw-r-- 1 archive archive 586 Jun 19 08:41 procps_1.12.2.dsc
-rw-rw-r-- 1 archive archive 213472 Jun 19 08:41 procps_1.12.2.tar.gz
226 Transfer complete.
ftp> pwd
257 "/pub/debian/hamm/hamm/source/base" is current directory.

How about that, hey? Debian source format is just plain .tar.gz!
(either plain .tar.gz, or .orig.tar.gz + .diff.gz).

-- 
joost witteveen, joostje@debian.org
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