Pierre Labastie wrote: > On 14/03/2017 12:29, Jeremy Henty wrote: > > Is it BLFS policy to include http links as well as ftp links? If > > so then the mutt page should also include http links. (Just > > replace 'ftp:' with 'http:' and wget downloads the file with no > > problem.) > > > My understanding of BLFS policy is that we give an http (preferably > https if available) link and an ftp link, but only one if the other > is not available. In this case, upstream only gives the ftp link on > its download page,
Now that I think about it I was having ftp problems with my firewall and decided to try http instead. I never checked whether upstream actually provided http links, I just kept a note to remind myself that http also worked. > In this case, it seems that giving only the ftp link is what we > should do. That is reasonable. Thanks for your input! Regards, Jeremy Henty -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
