On 2020-11-11 09:53 -0600, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote: > On 11/11/20 3:21 AM, Kevin Buckley via lfs-dev wrote: > > I was recently trying to generate a downlaod listing of the packages I had > > used > > when building my Pkguser based 9.1 system, inclduing the BLFS components > > that I'd merged into a single book. > > > > FWIW, so as to see what I needed to download from BLFS 10.0 > > > > I noticed that in BLFS, where the package download URIs are presented within > > the > > packages section, one ends up with entries akin to (links/lynx dump output) > > > > * Download (HTTP): https://www.domain.tld/path/to/taball.tar.xz > > * Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.domain.tld/path/to/taball.tar.xz > > > > however, in the LFS Book, where all of the package tarball URIs are listed > > in > > the one section, it's just > > > > * Download: https://www.domain.tld/path/to/taball.tar.xz > > > > or, for the odd package, > > > > * Download: ftp://ftp.domain.tld/path/to/taball.tar.xz > > > > I'm aware that there is no reason the LFS and BLS books should exhibit any > > consistency, but was wondering if having the LFS Book "adopt" the BLFS > > markup might be doable, or rather, if there was anything in way that the > > package download listing is generated that might prevent it being done? > > The design of LFS is that all the packages are expected to be built. In > BLFS, the user chooses what packages to build. > > Another issue with LFS is that there are packages only built in the > chroot environment. Downloading a package in chroot is not really > practical. > > Also I'll note that users of the stable book can download everything > with a single wget command in Chapter 3.1 or one tarball from > ftp://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/lfs/lfs-packages/ or its mirrors.
Adding a link in package page will make it easier when some LFS package need to be upgraded in a completed system. -- Xi Ruoyao <xry...@mengyan1223.wang> School of Aerospace Science and Technology, Xidian University -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
