Author: ken
Date: Tue Jul 23 18:54:42 2019
New Revision: 21856
Log:
Beyond BLFS - use a working link for fedora, unfortunately srpms only. The old
cgit links via pagure no longer work, at best you might eventually find the
most recent commit, but looking at specfiles and patches there is unreasonably
hard.
Modified:
trunk/BOOK/introduction/important/beyond.xml
Modified: trunk/BOOK/introduction/important/beyond.xml
==============================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/introduction/important/beyond.xml Tue Jul 23 14:46:28
2019 (r21855)
+++ trunk/BOOK/introduction/important/beyond.xml Tue Jul 23 18:54:42
2019 (r21856)
@@ -149,14 +149,15 @@
in <filename class="directory">debian/patches</filename>.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para>Fedora
- <ulink url="http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/"/> - this site
- is still occasionally overloaded, but it is an easy way of looking
at .spec
- files and patches. If you know their name for the package (e.g.
mesa.git)
- you can append that to the URI to get to it. If not, use the search
box.
- If the site is unavailable, try looking for a local mirror of
ftp.fedora.com
- (the primary site is usually unavailable if fedora cgit is not
responding)
- and download a source rpm to see what they do.</para>
+ <para>Fedora packages are now most-conveniently accessed by
downloading
+ an srpm (source rpm) and using <application>rpm2cpio</application>
(see
+ the Tip at the bottom of the page. Go to <ulink
+ url="https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/"/> and then
choose
+ which repo you wish to look at - development/rawhide is the latest
+ development, or choose releases for what was shipped in a release,
+ updates for updates to a release, or updates/testing for the latest
+ updates which might work or might have problems.
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Gentoo - the mirrors for ebuilds and patches seem to be
well-hidden,
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