Hi Volker,
I have the rsync listing of planetmirror.com for the SuSE 8.0 update dir, as of 2004-01-25. They clearly show the -282 packages. I would like to think that the only way for these packages to appear there is by way of SuSE supplying them :))
rpm -Kv /tmp/k_deflt-2.4.18-282.i386.rpm /tmp/k_deflt-2.4.18-282.i386.rpm: MD5 sum OK: 85a415b18623f975fe784ed79add7896 gpg: Signature made Thu 18 Dec 2003 09:05:11 NZDT using DSA key ID 9C800ACA gpg: Good signature from "SuSE Package Signing Key <build@suse.de>"
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