On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 02:12 -0500, Colin Dean wrote: > Chris Staub wrote: > > Colin Dean wrote: > >> I recently finished a build of LFS 6.2, and quickly realized that > >> there is no way to get the packages for BLFS or other packages from > >> within a fresh built LFS environment. > >> > >> There's probably been discussion on this before, but I couldn't find > >> anything when I search on linuxfromscratch.org. > >> > >> Shouldn't wget, or curl since it seems that a lot of programs rely on > >> it (wget is more lightweight) be included in a base LFS build so that > >> one can retrieve additional packages? > > > > LFS includes inetutils, which has several internet programs, including ftp. > > Ah, I see that now--having FTP is definitely a boon, but aren't the > majority of packages available via HTTP? your distro your rules ... just install wget ... and yes may be it should be a component of lfs :-) -- H CUH Rainer Peter Feller H
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