Randy McMurchy wrote: > Dan Nicholson wrote these words on 01/15/07 11:46 CST: > >> I just noticed that one a couple weeks ago, too. So much better. I'm >> all for changing the link. > > Okay, here's a plan. I'm looking for +1 or -1 to the idea: > > 1. Change all the prdownloads to just downloads. > 2. Create an xinclude file that says something similar to: "The > download URL shown above will automatically pick one of the many > Sourceforge mirrors to download the package from. If you'd rather > choose which mirror you want to download from, substitute > 'prdownloads' for 'downloads' in the URL above. Also see the > section in Chapter 1 - Getting the Source Packages' for additional > information. > 3. Insert the xinclude file after the download section of each > Sourceforge package. > 4. Create a paragraph in the "Getting the Source Packages" section of > the book explaining the Sourceforge situation, and additionally show > an example of forcing a download from a particular mirror. E.g., > http://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/someproject/someproject-x.y.z.tar.gz > > The inserts into each Sourceforge package would be done by global > seds, so there's really no effort involved at all to make this happen.
+1. Sounds great to me. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
