On Sat, 8 Sep 2018 20:44:50 +0200 Pierre Labastie via blfs-support <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 9/8/18 8:17 PM, Stephen Berman via blfs-support wrote: >> On Fri, 07 Sep 2018 21:50:46 +0200 Stephen Berman <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> On Fri, 07 Sep 2018 12:14:22 -0500 renodr via blfs-support >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> On 2018-09-07 11:52, Stephen Berman via blfs-support wrote: >>>>> The wpa_supplicant page in BLFS 8.3 provides this required patch link: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/blfs/8.3/wpa_supplicant-2.6-upstream_fixes-2.patch >>>>> >>>>> but that URL does not exist. Doing s/8.3/svn/ does yield an existing >>>>> URL; is the patch there also correct for 8.3? (8.2 has a different >>>>> wpa_supplicant-2.6-upstream_fixes-1.patch) >>>>> >>>>> Steve Berman >>>> >>>> Bruce, this one is your forte - the 8.3 page on the website doesn't exist >>>> whatsoever for patches. >>>> >>>> Sorry that we overlooked this, Steve! Just pull it out of SVN for now, this >>>> package had security patches that constituted the -2 patch. >>> >>> Thanks for confirming that's the right patch. >> >> Well, the s/8.3/svn method has worked for several other patches, but not >> for openssh, which is at 7.7p1 in 8.3 but 7.8p1 in svn. Is it ok to use >> the svn patch with openssh-7.7pn1 or should I install both openssh-7.8p1 >> and the patch from svn, and if the latter, will I have to make an other >> adjustments to BLFS 8.3? >> > > Hopefully, there _will_ be an 8.3 page for patches. Meantime, all the (old and > newer) patches can be downloaded from > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/downloads/<package-name> > > Pierre Thanks (also to renodr, who gave me the same tip offlist), that's good to know. Why isn't that location used in the books instead of a separate directory for each release, which seems to be more of a maintenance burden? Steve Berman -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
