I was trying to download the glibc-latest.tar.bz2 from the website. When it downloaded it ended up being glibc-ports-20060220. I would of assumed that glibc-latest.tar.bz2 would of been glibc-20060220.tar.bz2 glibc-2.3-latest.tar.bz2 would of been glibc-2.3-20060220.tar.bz2 I would also recommend that glibc-ports-latest.tar.bz2 should be created. Here's my DL record to show the issues. wget -q ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/glibc/snapshots/glibc-latest.tar.bz2 tar tf glibc-latest.tar.bz2 | head -n 1 glibc-ports-20060220/
I confirmed this is still true on 20060227. I guess there is a script bug on the server that prepares these tarballs such that it links to the wrong thing. Perhaps something like ln -s glibc-20060227.tar.bz2 glibc-latest.tar.bz2 ln -s glibc-ports-20060227.tar.bz2 glibc-latest.tar.bz2 ^^^^ error here such that there should be a glibc-ports-latest.tar.bz2 but there is not?
Oops, my bad. I've fixed the snapshot script.
Can we get the current symlinks fixed?
The fix committed by Roland should take effect when the snapshot occurs today/tonight. Until then people can just go to ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/glibc/snapshots and determine manually what the latest is I imagine.