On 9/4/06, Bruce Dubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I thought the LFS downloads went in http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/downloads/ That's where the links in the book go.
They do right now. There's an issue with that, though. If you still want the download location to be http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/downloads/development/udev-config-20060715.tar.bz2, then everytime the book is regenerated, someone will have to put the file or a symlink back there. What I'm saying is that udev-config and lfs-bootscripts should not be definitely tied to the book download directory even though they share the same repo. Another download location that would work is http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/downloads/udev-config/. The link in the book to the download location would point there instead. Same for lfs-bootscripts. My original proposal was that they be in downloads.lfs.org/{udev-config,lfs-bootscripts}/. Either place is fine. If downloads.lfs.org is deprecated, that's no issue to me. This would allow the developers of the udev-config and lfs-bootscripts to make changes and not have them automatically get included in the book. (Think the huge makeover that will happen to the udev rules with the new syntax in udev-098) Then, when they're ready, they can create a tarball and put it in www.lfs.org/lfs/downloads/udev-config/udev-config-$(date).tar.bz2 and update the book to use this new tarball. This would also allow these developers more control if any of the installation instructions change, say if udev-config adds a new rules file. Then at release time, tarballs with the LFS version in the name can be placed in www.lfs.org/lfs/downloads/6.2.1/udev-config-6.2.1.tar.bz2, for instance. That's how I look at it anyway.
Should all the files in downloads.linuxfromscratch.org be moved to the museum?
There are still useful things like make_devices, rpm2targz and deb2targz there. The last two are linked to in the BLFS book. They'd probably need a new home that doesn't indicate they're obsolete. -- Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
