This was discussed on this list once before, though I can't seem to find the thread to see what became of it. But since I was thinking of it I thought I would bring it up again.
Basically this involves adding a few new elements to the profile. In a nutshell a new block like this would be added to each package: <stage name="Downloading"> (Maybe this could be Download and Check) <download> <file>&[package-name]-package;</file> <url>ftp://ftp.linuxfromscratch.org/pub/lfs/conglomeration/[package-name]/</url> <destination>&packages-dir;</destination> <digest>&[package-name]-md5;</digest> </download> </stage> One thing to note, since the download element supports the <digest> tag this means that all digest checking will be moved from the <unpack> elements to the <download> elements. By doing this it would allow downloading packages as the profile progresses, especially useful for package upgrades. This also has an added feature of being able to dp digest checking against patch files. This also has a potential for being a replacement for the wget lists, however this will only be possible if a new version of nALFS is released that incorporates Jamie's recent changes to be able to pass a flag to nALFS and have it just download the packages and not build anything. Another thing, since the download element will support multiple url elements, it may be possible to include the official download url's for packages in addition to the ftp mirror url's. Comments, thoughts??? -- Thomas LFS User : 4729 / Linux User : 298329 kitt - Powered by: Linux 2.6.12.3 16:37:31 up 1:40, 1 user, load average: 0.19, 0.59, 0.97
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