Currently in LFS, there's a single entity &blfs-root; that points to
www.lfs.org/blfs/. However, there are a few places in the book that
contain specific links to BLFS pages: db, inetutils and shadow
offhand. These end up hardcoding the rest of the path link. Something
like:

<ulink url="&blfs-root;view/svn/security/cracklib.html"/>

There are two things I'd like to address here.

1. We shouldn't always point to the svn version. When a stable book is
released, it should probably point to the stable version of the BLFS
book. Although, there could be a time lapse where this could be a bad
idea, i.e. LFS-6.2 + BLFS-6.1. Still, if someone's following the
stable LFS book, they probably don't want to get forwarded into the
development version of BLFS.

2. More nitpicky, but we could easily absorb the view/$version part
into another entity.

I suggest the following two entity additions to general.ent:

<!ENTITY blfs-version "svn">
<!ENTITY blfs-view "&blfs-root;view/&blfs-version;/">

We have a similar convention in the BLFS book for referring to the LFS
book. Thoughts?

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Dan
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