Paul Rogers wrote:
On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 07:47:12PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
Ken Moffat wrote:
On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 01:34:01PM -0700, Paul Rogers wrote:
One could also mention Modular XOrg I think.
I don't follow that - sure, the packages are probably not on
anduin, and certainly not in the main wget list, but the Xorg
downloads are almost always available from upstream (i.e. barring
temporary disk failures). Anyway, many of the Xorg "applications"
and most of the fonts are unnecessary on a modern desktop.
Which files are you discussing Ken? All the Xorg files are on
anduin.
No idea ;-) I assumed that Paul had found something not on anduin
(from his phrase above) - certainly, I am not aware of any part of
Xorg which downloads files while a package is being built (i.e. what
we were discussing), but I assumed he was using the scripts in the
book and had failed to find the (versioned) packages at anduin.
"What I meant was" given Modular XOrg allows various packages to be
updated independently, at any particular point in time the upstream
package list may well be different than as in the BLFS book.
Incorrect. The packages are updated daily for -dev and the stable
releases are there. Since you are doing an odd build based on years old
packages, I think you are using a version of BLFS that is old, but not a
stable release. We did not do BLFS stable between 6.3 and 7.5 but all
the files for released versions are there:
http://anduin.linuxfromscratch.org/sources/BLFS/
The way
some sites manage their sources, purging older versions, or may choose
to, maybe the set in the book will be available or maybe not. In part
because I'm always "behind", I've had trouble in the past finding the
right versions of packages. Newer updates may also be incompatible with
what's in the book. It happens.
If you stay with stable versions of the book at versions 7.5 and later,
the packages are there. If not, you get to figure it out. You may be
able to find the versions you want in conglomeration/.
Where as, if the package complement given in the book is captured and
preserved, then the book always works. I like that.
-- Bruce
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