Re: ld.so (fwd)
David Engel writes ("ld.so (fwd)"):
> Forwarded message:
> > I'm having a few problems with your 'ldso' package when using 'dftp'.
> > The problem arises because the internal package name is "ldso" yet
> > the filename is "ld.so". Would you mind changing these to be consistant
> > in a future release?
>
> This request was sent to me privately. What do y'all think? It
> doesn't really matter to me. The package was already named ldso when
> I took over maintenance. As far as I know, the only other packages
> which reference it are my own, experimental, ELF packages.
Changing package names is usually a bad idea unless there's a good
reason.
We've never promised that the filenames on our FTP site meet the
requirements of a program like `dftp'. I was busy when the program
was first discussed here, but I knew things like this were going to
happen.
IMO the real solution is to have a real FTP method for dselect that
only gets the first few bytes of each package to check what it is.
This is doable, but someone has to go and write it.
If people want to keep a mirror of our FTP archive then they don't
need a program like dftp.
So, in summary, I think dftp is a mistake.
Ian.
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