On 28/12/2014 Peter Kelly wrote:
Another possibility is for me to host the files on a subdomain of uxproductivity.com <http://uxproductivity.com/>, in much the same way as binaries for the libraries are hosted by others in various locations. That way it’s not an official Apache thing but at least we can have a URL we can point people at which has exactly the files we want.
There is Apache Extras (by Google) for that. But Google recently (still, months ago) changed their policy and the Board is aware but a solution was not actually found. SourceForge started a replacement at http://sourceforge.net/directory/apache_extras but it is not official yet. So we are in a transition phase.
The OpenOffice "bootstrap" script does exactly what you need to do here (download and extract tarballs to the right places). It's a Perl script which is probably built, using bootstrap.1, as part of the configure process... Well, if interested look at http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/openoffice/trunk/main/ ; in bootstrap.1, line 42 contains the actual call to the downloader script.
Regards, Andrea.
