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
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