/usr/portage/experimental/; especially hppa

[Salze]

Hi!

I have several file in this directory which I haven't downloaded by hand. Where do these come from? What's the "experimental"-directory for, anyway?

ls /usr/portage/experimental/hppa/stages/
total 61M
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 216 2003-05-02 07:07 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 96 2003-04-09 22:38 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12M 2003-04-17 14:37 stage1-hppa1.1-1.4_pre20030414.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11M 2003-04-21 22:30 stage1-hppa-1.4_pre20030420.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 38M 2003-04-17 14:38 stage2-hppa1.1-1.4_pre20030414.tar.bz2

ls /usr/portage/experimental/hppa/livecd/
total 166M
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 448 2003-04-30 21:30 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 96 2003-04-09 22:38 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 25M 2003-04-09 22:45 livecd-hppa-beta_01.iso
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 58 2003-04-30 21:30 livecd-hppa-beta_01.md5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 28M 2003-04-24 22:00 livecd-hppa-beta_02b.iso
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 59 2003-04-30 21:30 livecd-hppa-beta_02b.md5
-rwxr--r-- 1 root root 28M 2003-04-29 03:00 livecd-hppa-beta_02c.iso
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 28M 2003-04-30 13:00 livecd-hppa-beta_02e.iso
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 28M 2003-04-20 00:00 livecd-hppa-beta_02.iso
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 58 2003-04-30 21:30 livecd-hppa-beta_02.md5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 28M 2003-04-30 22:00 livecd-hppa-beta_03.iso
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 58 2003-04-30 21:30 livecd-hppa-beta_03.md5

bye
Salze

[sciack]

hey I had the same problem!!!!!! Please help us!

It happens just with some rsync servers... why????????






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