Matthew Burgess wrote:
Hi folks,
While I know DJ is hard at work doing the Xorg 7.1 update I thought I'd
share a script that I just wrote to automatically generate the wget
files for downloading all those packages. It's written in Python (the
only scripting language I know, other than shell scripting which would
have been painful to write this in, IMO).
Also note that
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/x/xorg7.html says you may
need to download up to 280 files. There are indeed 280 files in the
distribution but there are .tar.gz and .tar.bz2 versions of each
package. Oh, and there's a separate copy of all modules in the
'everything/' folder on the FTP site too, just for good measure!. So,
I'd suggest that the figure be changed to 140.
Actually, there are 293 packages that can be downloaded in total (or 570
something if you look at available tar.gz files). The 7.1 release
folders only contain the updated packages just to make things more
difficult, but thanks for the script...it can be adapted to account for
the other packages from the previous release.
-- DJ Lucas
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