Thanks guys... I found the proto-7.2.wget file by poking around.
There is no additional files on this screen. Maybe my browser is having issues? http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/stable/x/xorg7.html On a mac with firefox. On Nov 9, 2008, at 2:53 PM, DJ Lucas wrote: > Ralph Porter wrote: >> Ok, so disecting this command > > First, please do not top post. Try to insert your comments at logical > points in the quoted text of the previous message so that they have > some > relation to the points presented. Then, if necessary, try to trim > anything that is no longer relevant to the conversation (though a > lot of > us still fail at that ;-) ). > >> >> grep -v '^#' ../${section}-${version}.wget | wget -i- -c \ >> -B http://xorg.freedesktop.org/releases/individual/${section}/ >> md5sum -c ../${section}-${version}.md5 >> >> says (if i read the man pages correctly) that ../proto77.2.wget >> should >> contain a list of files that I want to wget? > > Yes. Exactly. > >> >> the -i- looks like a typo, but not sure. >> > > No it is not a typo. The -i denotes the file to read a list of > targets > from. The dash immediately following 'i' tells wget to read from > stdin > (ie: the output of the grep command via the pipe (|) symbol). > >> OK, if im correct, then where is the list of files? >> >> http://wiki.x.org/wiki/ModuleDescriptions >> >> do i just cut and paste all files that have proto/* into the .wget >> file? >> > > > NO! That would be bad. The list of files is contained in the > proto-7.2.wget file. There is a link a little further up the page in > the > 'Additional Files' section. Right click on the proto-7.2.wget link > and > save as proto-7.2.wget into the xc/ directory. Run the commands as > presented from the specified directory (in this case xc/proto/). > > -- DJ Lucas > > -- > http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html > Unsubscribe: See the above information page -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
