On 7/12/07, Dan Nicholson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 7/12/07, taipan67 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > ...I also think it's a bit redundant having the same 'md5sum' link on > > every page. The ideal would be to split it into categories, & then each > > md5sum-file could be saved at the same time as the sources & used with > > the '-c' option to check the downloaded files en masse. I'm building > > Xorg-7.2 at the moment, & even if i was strictly adherring to the book & > > scripting each section, that 'md5sum -c' option would still spew out > > loads of annoying errors. As it is, i'm manually checking each package's > > md5sum as i go, because i'm building them selectively, one at a time > > (i'm including xcb to see how the updates go...). > > Yeah, that's bothered me a bunch, too. Especially since the book tells > you to make separate subdirectories for each section: mkdir proto; cd > proto, etc. I could easily split the md5sums file up. Then we'd have > something like lib-7.2.wget, lib-7.2.md5, etc. As it is, it's sort of > a pain to generate the md5sums file, and I have a sort of managed > script to handle these details. The process gets a little easier every > time, but it's still kind of error prone.
So, I don't know if a consensus was ever reached in this discussion, but I committed what I came up with. The wget files now show up in the Additional Downloads section. Additionally, there are now per-section md5sum files. I also updated the Introduction sample script to hopefully mirror the process. Commits are r6946 and r6947. CC'd alfs since this probably breaks the Xorg setup. Holler if you have a problem with this. -- Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/alfs-discuss FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
