Tim Sarbin wrote: > I have had repeated problems downloading certain packages, mpfr being a > big offender. With a better tuned wget it downloads fine every time > without needing to re-run make. As far as the other parched goes, it is > dealing with the fact that the verbage makes no sense when the source > archive has not been set. Honestly the whole source archive setting > thing is a bit misleading in the menuconfig. I understand Tue goal of > it, but both the menuconfig, and the verbage in the build system seem a > bit broken. Run a new alfs build, set it to download sources, but leave > source archive at its default setting. let it download a few packages > then kill and restart make. the verbage for the packages that have > already been downloaded will be broken. >
Ok, I now see what you mean for the download message, definitely broken. I never noticed as I usually always have SRC_ARCHIVE set. Both that patch and your wget patch have been applied, thanks. I'm open to suggestions for the SRC_ARCHIVE menu option, as I'm not sure what to change with it. Thomas -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/alfs-discuss FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
