Author: ken
Date: Mon Aug 26 08:43:33 2013
New Revision: 11701
Log:
Links to other distros - improve wording re fedora (they have a search box
now), replace pld (link was dead, distro seems defunct), add link to openSUSE
factory source rpms.
Modified:
trunk/BOOK/general.ent
trunk/BOOK/introduction/important/beyond.xml
trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
Modified: trunk/BOOK/general.ent
==============================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/general.ent Mon Aug 26 04:18:11 2013 (r11700)
+++ trunk/BOOK/general.ent Mon Aug 26 08:43:33 2013 (r11701)
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
<!-- $LastChangedBy$ $Date$ -->
-<!ENTITY day "24"> <!-- Always 2 digits -->
+<!ENTITY day "26"> <!-- Always 2 digits -->
<!ENTITY month "08"> <!-- Always 2 digits -->
<!ENTITY year "2013">
<!ENTITY copyrightdate "2001-&year;">
<!ENTITY copyholder "The BLFS Development Team">
<!ENTITY version "&year;-&month;-&day;">
-<!ENTITY releasedate "August 24th, &year;">
+<!ENTITY releasedate "August 26th, &year;">
<!ENTITY pubdate "&year;-&month;-&day;"> <!-- metadata req. by TLDP -->
<!ENTITY blfs-version "svn"> <!-- svn|[release #] -->
<!ENTITY lfs-version "development"> <!--
version|testing|unstable|development] -->
Modified: trunk/BOOK/introduction/important/beyond.xml
==============================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/introduction/important/beyond.xml Mon Aug 26 04:18:11
2013 (r11700)
+++ trunk/BOOK/introduction/important/beyond.xml Mon Aug 26 08:43:33
2013 (r11701)
@@ -151,13 +151,12 @@
<listitem>
<para>Fedora
<ulink url="http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/"/> - this site
- is still occasionally overloaded, and somewhat hard to navigate
(nearly
- 300 pages, linked by number) but it is an easy way of looking at
.spec
+ is still occasionally overloaded, but it is an easy way of looking
at .spec
files and patches. If you know their name for the package (e.g.
mesa.git)
- you can append that to the URI to get to it. If unavailable, try
- looking for a local mirror of ftp.fedora.com (the primary site is
usually
- unavailable if fedora cgit is not responding) and download a source
- rpm to see what they do.</para>
+ you can append that to the URI to get to it. If not, use the search
box.
+ If the site is unavailable, try looking for a local mirror of
ftp.fedora.com
+ (the primary site is usually unavailable if fedora cgit is not
responding)
+ and download a source rpm to see what they do.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Gentoo - the mirrors for ebuilds and patches seem to be
well-hidden,
@@ -173,10 +172,9 @@
<command>dodoc</command>.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para>PLD
- <ulink url="http://cvs.pld-linux.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/packages/"/> -
- another distro which uses rpms, cvsweb provides access to patches
and the
- spec files.</para>
+ <para>openSUSE
+ <ulink
url="http://download.opensuse.org/factory/repo/src-oss/suse/src/"/> -
+ source only seems to be available in source rpms.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Slackware - the official package browser is currently broken.
The
Modified: trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
==============================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml Mon Aug 26 04:18:11
2013 (r11700)
+++ trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml Mon Aug 26 08:43:33
2013 (r11701)
@@ -44,6 +44,16 @@
-->
<listitem>
+ <para>August 26th, 2013</para>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>[ken] - Going Beyond BLFS : remove defunct link to PLD
+ and add a link to openSUSE factory.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
<para>August 25th, 2013</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
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