On Mon, 2020-06-22 at 11:45 -0400, Scott Andrews via blfs-support wrote: > FYI popt is not at this url: > http://rpm5.org/files/popt/popt-1.16.tar.gz > > Dead link > See the following: > > Panu Matilainen pmatilai at redhat.com > Fri May 29 08:17:52 UTC 2020 > Previous message (by thread): [Rpm-announce] RPM 4.16.0 beta1 > released! > Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] > At the time of the rpm.org upstream reboot back in 2006 [1], the > idea > was to split out popt from the rpm codebase and then ... something. > Only we were too busy dealing with rpm itself and popt got left > behind. > The last popt release is from 2010 and about a year ago it's download > site dropped off the net. People have been prodding us about this for > some time now, popt being a mandatory dependency of rpm but also used > by several other prominent OSS projects such as Samba, SSSD and > Gnome. > So after heroic efforts of Neal Gompa to convert the rusty old CVS > (anybody still remember *that* horror?) repo into a nice shiny git > repo, here goes. > > From now on, popt will be maintained under the rpm-software- > management > umbrella at https://github.com/rpm-software-management/popt where > bugs > can be reported and pull-requests submitted, with release tarball on > ftp.rpm.org. > > To accompany the launch there's also a new 1.18 release in the > pipeline: > > http://ftp.rpm.org/releases/testing/popt-1.18-rc1.tar.gz [2] >
Thanks for the heads up. Will update the book. Pierre -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
