Dan Nicholson wrote: > Currently, the Xorg pages have the download of the .wget lists in the > commands section. This is different from the rest of the book where > the downloads are at the head of the page and you're expected to have > all necessary downloads before the commands start. I changed things a > bit to be more consistent. Compare: > > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/x/x7lib.html > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~dnicholson/blfs-xlinks/x/x7lib.html > > The wget list now appears in an Additional Downloads section. The > alternative is to add another item to the Package Information, perhaps > above Download MD5 sum. The other advantage of this change is that the > wget list shows up as a hyperlink, making it easy to use a browser and > find out what package versions are being used. > > Any opinions? > > -- > Dan > This will be out of sequence with the other posts in this thread, for which i apologise, but i've had an alternative idea that i haven't seen broached before...
Since readers are initially encouraged to download & use the wget-lists on the "Introduction to Xorg" page, how about adding a code-block to download all of them at once in the 'Setting up the Xorg Build Environment' section, immediately after creating the xc-directory & cd'ing into it. A loop like this, perhaps:- for section in app data driver font lib proto util; do wget http://anduin.linuxfromscratch.org/files/BLFS/xorg/$section-7.2.wget done In that way, the upstream vs in-house issue isn't a factor, plus future updates to the lists could be accommodated in the book by changing one digit in the 'wget' line (i imagine). An additional 'wget' line for section-specific md5sum-files could potentially go in the same loop, if & when such files are available, but might be better-placed in the current locations for continuity's sake... The downside is that the files wouldn't be easily browseable online, like the hyperlink option. Can anybody see any glaring flaws in this idea that haven't occurred to me? taipan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
