How does this work?

It's as simple as

qwurx [shmem] 16:35 ~/old_stuff > perl -MLWP::Simple -e 'getstore("htt
+p://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/download.fedoralegacy.org/r
+edhat/9/os/SRPMS/mysql-3.23.54a-11.src.rpm","mysql-3.23.54a-11.src.rp
+m")'
qwurx [shmem] 16:38 ~/old_stuff > rpm2cpio mysql-3.23.54a-11.src.rpm |
+ cpio -i --make-directories
cpio: write error: No space left on device
qwurx [shmem] 16:38 ~/old_stuff > df -h .
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda3             9,9G  9,4G     0 100% /home
qwurx [shmem] 16:39 ~/old_stuff > ls -l
total 12724
-rwxr-xr-x 1 shmem shmem      57 2007-02-08 16:38 filter-requires-mysq
+l.sh*
-rw-r--r-- 1 shmem shmem     193 2007-02-08 16:38 my.cnf
-rw-r--r-- 1 shmem shmem    1131 2007-02-08 16:38 mysql-3.23.51-manfix
+es.patch
-rw-r--r-- 1 shmem shmem 8305482 2007-02-08 16:38 mysql-3.23.54a-11.sr
+c.rpm
-rw-r--r-- 1 shmem shmem     679 2007-02-08 16:38 mysql-3.23.54a-doubl
+efree.patch
-rw------- 1 shmem shmem 4677632 2007-02-08 16:38 mysql-3.23.54a.tar.b
+z2
-rw-r--r-- 1 shmem shmem     360 2007-02-08 16:38 mysql-3.23.54-libdir
+.patch
qwurx [shmem] 16:39 ~/old_stuff >
[download]

Whoops. Seems like my drive is stable... but you get the idea. There's the mysql-3.23.54a.tar.bz2 file and some patches from RedHat, along with some shell scripts and a spec file (which contains build instructions).

Have to clean up a bit... I'll /msg you a link.

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