I'll be at CB2, Cambridge on Sunday. Have some spare time to burn CDRs for interested parties on Saturday, probably. Intel architecture and sub arch types only. Happy to hand stuff over to folk willing to collect in person. I don't have packaging materials to operate a postal service, and don't particularly want to spend money and time doing that.

One Good Thing [tm] about all the disk archiving that I've done for the first week of September is to collate all the Redhat 7.x Update RPMS, and other goodies that I've built recently.

For folks wanting to update a system from a new install using the original RedHat install CDs, but no ( or slow ) internet access - better to use a CD update archive.

The binary update rpms (just) fit on one 700M CDR.

Too early for the Redhat 7.2 backport rpms of KDE 3.0.3 that I'm still trying to build and resolve dependancies upon, BUT some other rpm packaged goodies available are:

1) selinux SELDI binary rpms for the 2002082308 release that can be rpm installed in a standard RedHat 7.2 system includes big archive of email from the NSA listserver, and documents / saved articles.

2) postgresql 7.2.2 built for RedHat 7.2 i586 and i686

3) snort IDS with a recent ruleset ( 31st Aug )

I can burn CDRs for anyone willing to compensate me for doing so ( 700M / 80min ) email me privately if interested, please.

( Within reason ) I am willing to mix n' match components to squeeze the number of CDs needed.

Sizes of components:

( first column current packages; second column are obsoleted packages, MegaBytes )

RH7.2 Update RPMS: i386 469 426 i586 21 61 i686 50 179 athlon 21 81 noarch 90 0 SRPMS 546 316 images 7 -

RH7.3 Update RPMS: i386 180 171 i586 25 37 i686 57 112 athlon 25 49 SRPMS 190 102

selinux : 462 snort : 11 postgres: 24 nmap: 14

Just the stuff that I have to hand. I can probably collate all the KDE 3.0.3 SRPMS from a RedHat 7.2 backporting site, but I haven't had time to resolve dependancy issues and build binaries successfully. Some way to go before all that is operational, and fit to install. These weigh in at about 83 MBytes AFAIR.

Anyone else been working on RedHat 7.2 KDE 3.0.3 RPMS by any chance? If you have, and know exactly how to resolve all the missing deps, do tell!

-- James

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