Ken Moffat wrote: > 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 ].
I'm fixing it. Will commit as soon as I can check how it renders. > 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. Yes, like mobile-broadband-info or mobile-bb-provider-info or mobile-provider-info. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
