[WBEL-devel] were these RPMs pulled from RHAS3?

[Pasi Pirhonen]

Hi,


On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 09:31:05PM -0500, John Hinton wrote:
> John Morris wrote:
> 
> >
> >Yup, RHEL3 doesn't include those, even though lynx is a build requirement. 
> >So lynx is on CD1 in the lostRPMS directory but the others you have to 
> >being in from elsewhere.
> >
> > 
> >
> WOW!!! What an oversight for the webmasters among us! No ncftp??? 
> Whadupwidat? One of my most used tools and ncftpget is unique to my 
> knowledge? Sadly, this seems to be yet another tidbit of a move by 
> RedHat which I don't care for. Seems with all the forced package 
> installs, a bit bloated, and no real good fanancial solution for 
> webservers... Maybe they don't want no stinkin' webservers running RedHat?
> 

You might want to look lftp. Since i discovered the power of lftp, i've
never ever even looked back again. I think ncftp has some licensing
issues? Didn't that have kind of 'non-free' license anyway? Lazy to
check it out so have to go with memory ....

I've found that if there is something lftp cannot do, i haven't needed
that yet. Everything isn't that easy to master always. That's just my
biased opinion tho...

For me (might be that newer ncftp can do that too) the most valuable
part is that lftp can do speed capping. I set it to only use 90kB/s
and my 1Mbit/s line is still usable even when downloading from fast
site. mirror-command is widely used here too. 

just my .2¤


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