Hi all, This message is mostly going out to Justin, but I'm not sure he's active in the project any longer, and may not be reading messages so I'm bringing it up to the community to decide how to go forward.
BLFS advertises that the source packages referenced in the book can be downloaded from our "package server": http://anduin.linuxfromscratch.org/sources/BLFS , but I'm not sure that we should keep that reference in the book. There is an rsync cron update scheduled, but for whatever reason it doesn't work any longer. Or Justin isn't keeping up with the BLFS updates anymore. I don't know which it is, and it doesn't matter, but either way, it doesn't work any more. The server is way behind in package sources. To the point that I think we need to eliminate it from the book. In the last 6 months or so, there's been one update to the package server, and that was because it was brought out in the open that the server was *way* behind. That was in early December of last year. Since then, nothing. This is unacceptable to be advertised as something reliable in the book. No offense to Justin, as he took over because I (and all the other BLFS editors) just didn't keep up the package-server-repo as was originally designed as it should. It is a tremendously huge job to keep up with BLFS commits. I mean huge. Justin did well for a *long* time. Apparently, interest has waned and we need to modify the book to not advertise this package availability. Advertising it, but not being able to deliver is ten times worse than just pointing to developer's sites and hoping that the source tarball still exists. I'm ready to just blow off the "package server" concept from the book, and go forward just relying on package developer's source URL's. If it doesn't exist, the reader will Google to find it, or we will put it on Anduin ourselves with a specific URL in the area of Anduin where the Editor's have some control. To me that's better than us advertising it, but it being BS. Thoughts from others? -- Randy rmlscsi: [bogomips 1003.22] [GNU ld version 2.16.1] [gcc (GCC) 4.0.3] [GNU C Library stable release version 2.3.6] [Linux 2.6.14.3 i686] 22:44:00 up 37 days, 13:32, 1 user, load average: 0.04, 0.03, 0.00 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
