Torsten Vollmann wrote: > Thomas Pegg wrote: > >>Once this package is updated on anduin this won't be necessary, as it >>will be in .tar.bz2 format on there. So I did not apply this part. > > But the book has a link to a gz file...
True. The book uses official download links (in most cases), and weird enough most package maintainers stills hip their packages gz-ed instead of bz2-ed. The profile, on the other hand, uses the packages on anduin (the LFS packages server) or it's mirrors (lfs-matrix being the main mirror). Those packages are unzipped and bz2-ed before they are put online. This is done for consistency (e.g. it handles special cases like kerberos) and to preserve space. Joachim -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/alfs-discuss FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
