Waldo L. Jaquith (waldo@waldo.net)
Wed, 14 Apr 1999 22:44:45 -0400
Yellow-Bellied Sapsuckers,
Waldo whined:
>> I downloaded all of the files over my brand-spankin'-new DSL line, which
>> took a short 5 hours. The filenames, of course, were cut off, with elipses
>> (...) inserted in the middle of the filenames. As a result, my install
>> complained a great deal.
Then Dan wrote:
>This is very weird. All of the times I've done local HD install, the
>file names, regardless of truncation get installed properly.
Perhaps something else caused the problem? It seemed like about half,
maybe less, of the packages that I selected couldn't be found on my HFS
partition. Of course, they were all there, duplicated exactly from the
website. I don't know what else would have done it though.
Anybody else having this problem? To be honest, I'd be surprised if this
problem *didn't* occur. It only seems logical to me that the filenames
would have to be the same as when downloaded, with the possible exception
of version numbers. All the XFree files, for example:
XFree86-100dpi-...3.1-19a.ppc.rpm
XFree86-3.3.3.1-19a.ppc.rpm
XFree86-75dpi-f...3.1-19a.ppc.rpm
XFree86-cyrilli...3.1-19a.ppc.rpm
XFree86-devel-3...3.1-19a.ppc.rpm
XFree86-FBDev-3...3.1-19a.ppc.rpm
XFree86-ISO8859....0-5.noarch.rpm
XFree86-ISO8859....2-5.noarch.rpm
XFree86-ISO88....0-5.noarch#1.rpm
XFree86-ISO88....0-5.noarch#2.rpm
XFree86-ISO88....0-5.noarch#3.rpm
XFree86-ISO88....2-5.noarch#1.rpm
XFree86-ISO88....2-5.noarch#2.rpm
XFree86-libs-3....3.1-19a.ppc.rpm
XFree86-Xbh-3.3.3.1-19a.ppc.rpm
XFree86-xfs-3.3.3.1-19a.ppc.rpm
XFree86-Xnest-3...3.1-19a.ppc.rpm
XFree86-Xpmac-3...3.1-19a.ppc.rpm
XFree86-Xvfb-3....3.1-19a.ppc.rpm
I've replaced the MacOS's "..." character with three periods so that it
translates to different platforms. The #X at the end of some filenames is
the result of Anarchie, my FTP program, believing that it's downloading the
same file a few times, as the names are otherwise identical, once the
middle portion of the filename has been removed.
Anyhow, I hope this helps. But I imagine that it doesn't. :)
Best,
Waldo
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