Dan Nicholson wrote:
On 12/5/06, Colin Dean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Rainer Peter Feller wrote:
> just install wget ... and yes may be it should be a component of
lfs :-)
That's what I did, but I had to download it on another computer, burn it
to a CD, and get it off the CD on my LFS system.
Had I had the foresight to get wget before rebooting into LFS once I'd
finished the install, I'd have used curl on the liveCD to get the
additional packages. However, while curl is available on the CD as a
binary, there exists no source for it.
It's sort of one of the shortcomings of LFS. You're missing some key
components that you'd really want. A DHCP client is critical for me.
But that's the whole point. What you get when you finish LFS is just
supposed to be a barebones development system so you can go off and do
whatever you want with it.
Leading to:
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/basicnet/wget.html
This is exactly the page I read to install wget.
However, there is no way from within a freshly installed LFS environment
to download anything from the Internet using HTTP. One would have to
rely on foresight and the host OS, be it another Linux or the liveCD,
and remember to download wget or curl before booting from the fresh LFS
environment.
Yes, FTP exists and is a viable way of getting wget, but it seems a that
both wget and curl are of lesser priority on BLFS.
For instance, OpenSSL is the first package installed in BLFS. How does
one get the package? OK, via FTP, but that's not obvious at all.
Perhaps there should be a subsection of I.1. Getting the Source packages
that specifically tells someone to use FTP to get the packages or
suggests that the user get wget or curl and use one of those to get
packages.
I realize now that I could have gotten wget via FTP, but wouldn't it
make sense to include wget or curl in the base LFS because of the
possible need for HTTP to retrieve packages?
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