On 2020-08-31 07:49 +0100, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: > On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 01:20:52AM -0500, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev > wrote: > > On 8/31/20 1:10 AM, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: > > > The download link works, but the download is > > > xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin-xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin-0.4.3- > > > 9de2b7865ecb95bdd2cbaae00a17b23ae8455fe5.tar.bz2 > > > > > > I wonder if we should remark on this - in places we remark on > > > directory names which do not match the tarball. This one's > > > direcotry does match the tarball, but hte tarball name is > > > certainly not what I was expecting. > > > > Yes, it's pretty ugly. I did put in a note about it. > > > > -- Bruce > > > Ah, yeah, I see now 'This package extracts to a very non-standard > directory.' but I will argue that the directory, although very ugly, > is standard. That is, it matches the tarball name. It is the > tarball name which does not match what the link claims to download > > (xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin-0.4.3/xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin-0.4.3.tar.bz2)
If wget is used to retrieve the file, the tarball name will be correct. But if a browser is used, it will be wrong. > ĸen > -- > Juliet's version of cleanliness was next to godliness, which was to > say it was erratic, past all understanding and was seldom seen. > -- Unseen Academicals -- Xi Ruoyao <[email protected]> School of Aerospace Science and Technology, Xidian University -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
