taipan67 wrote: > 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 > > Actually, i've just spotted a flaw myself - the source-download codeblock on every page would still need to be updated anyway, so ignore me & carry on with the 'Additional Downloads' approach, it's growing on me.
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