Hey Sebastian,
>>> Will someone explain again why this isn't in a repo? downloading
>>> binaries from an FTP mirror is so 1900's. Not being able to download
>>> is so home grown. can we blame Oracle?
>>
>> Can you tell us what's so great about a repository. Actually, what *is* a
> repository in this context? [...]
>
> i think he means software repository
>
> so he could just
>
> yum update
> or aptitude or rpm or you or whatever ...
I see. Though, this is for software only, no binaries, right? What about our > 90%
Windows user base? However, we really might consider using such a repository, though that
is a matter of workload and other factors, so it might not happen in the next month or so.
Mike
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Mike Lischke, Senior Software Engineer
Database Group, Developer Tools
Sun Microsystems Inc., www.sun.com
