On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 05:11:55PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Ken Moffat wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 09:33:10AM +1000, Wayne Blaszczyk wrote: > >> What is with the broken download links on the > >> mobile-broadband-provider-info page? > >> Wayne. > > > > From memory, Bruce didn't like the long directory names with the > > long filename. I didn't realise his 'fix' had broken copy and > > paste from a browser. > > The filename does not fit on the page. Copy/paste should not be a problem if > you do two: > > SOURCE="ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/mobile-broadband-provider-info/20110511/" > wget http://$SOURCE/mobile-broadband-provider-info-20110511.tar.bz2 > I try not to force people to use a shell and wget. Sure, it's handy on occasion, but mostly I prefer to click in firefox and, equally importantly, to paste just the first part of the url if I'm looking for updates.
Wayne's original book (earlier version of the package) wraps the line in firefox but works fine, as did what I originally put in the book [ not tested for a PDF of the book, but I have no interest in those ]. It also works fine in lynx, even if the line in email is long. http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~wblaszcz/blfs-book-xsl/gnome/mobile-broadband-provider-info.html > There is a typo. "ftp.gnome/org" should be "ftp.gnome.org" > > I suppose we could do: > > http://anduin/sources/BLFS/svn/m/mobile-broadband-provider-info-20110511.tar.bz2 > > Which is still 81 characters long, but will still fit on the page. > > It's still pretty inconvenient to have a filename stem 39 characters long. > > -- Bruce Unfortunately, all the good package names have already been taken. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
