Ken Moffat wrote:
On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 12:29:00PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers wrote:
Hi Bruce,
may I contribute with some remarks according to my actual experiences ?
1.) Until xorg is installed and running, I have to use "lynx" to download and
compile the programs. There are however difficulties with this. Lynx does not
work with "https", so I have to download this files on another box and
transfer to the new one with the help of rsync. Could "https" be avoided ?
All files are located at ftp://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/blfs/
Also, you can build most packages in chroot including Xorg. What I like to
do is build ssh and wget in chroot and then ssh into the system from a fully
developed system.
2.) the addresses given for all xorg programs,
"ftp.x.org/pub/individual/proto" ( this one as an example ) does'nt work for
me. Lynx cannot find the files. I had to use the systemd book addresses:
"xorg.freedesktop.org/archive/individual/proto"
Sounds like a DNS problem.
$ host ftp.x.org
ftp.x.org is an alias for annarchy.freedesktop.org.
annarchy.freedesktop.org has address 131.252.210.176
annarchy.freedesktop.org mail is handled by 10 gabe.freedesktop.org.
$ host xorg.freedesktop.org
xorg.freedesktop.org is an alias for annarchy.freedesktop.org.
annarchy.freedesktop.org has address 131.252.210.176
annarchy.freedesktop.org mail is handled by 10 gabe.freedesktop.org.
FWIW, I'm still seeing this with *today's* book, e.g for the Xorg
Evdev Driver - but only on http, ftp is working fine (from firefox).
Using the http link I get
Not Found
The requested URL
/pub/individual/driver/xf86-input-evdev-2.10.1.tar.bz2 was not found
on this server.
Apache/2.2.22 (Debian) Server at ftp.x.org Port 80
Sounds like out-of-sync servers accompanied by dns games to supposedly
make things faster by routing to sites closer to the requesting system.
-- Bruce
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