Re: config.sub, config.guess, and the GNU FTP site

[harry Potter]

> In another message, John Eaton seems to imply that there's already a
> "config" Savannah project that contains these files in CVS.  In
> fact, I can find it there now that I know about it :) .

Yes, that's correct.
Flunk
http://www.10gute.de 

Re: config.sub, config.guess, and the GNU FTP site

[Ben Elliston]

> In another message, John Eaton seems to imply that there's already a
> "config" Savannah project that contains these files in CVS.  In
> fact, I can find it there now that I know about it :).

Yes, that's correct.

Ben

Re: config.sub, config.guess, and the GNU FTP site

[Paul D. Smith]

%% Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

  pe> Ben, would you like to have checkin privileges to gnulib?
  pe> Then you can simply install the latest versions there.

In another message, John Eaton seems to imply that there's already a
"config" Savannah project that contains these files in CVS.  In fact, I
can find it there now that I know about it :).

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Re: config.sub, config.guess, and the GNU FTP site

[Paul Eggert]

"Paul Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> The verification is complete for almost all the code, but Ben Elliston
> (who, according to the FSF folks I talked to, owns these particular
> files) has not responded to requests for help in verifying these files.

That could be because he moved from Red Hat to Wasabi Systems earlier
this year.  I'll CC: this message to Wasabi.  Perhaps his email is no
longer forwarded from Red Hat, as he moved several months ago.  Quite
possibly he's on vacation, as well.


> pe> gnulib currently keeps copies of several files like that in one
> pe> convenient place.  It slurps them from their canonical locations
> pe> automatically.
> 
> That's what I want to do.  How does gnulib do this?  Does it get then
> via CVS checkout somehow?  Or, some other way?

I put them into a local cache, and then commit the cache to gnulib.
(Karl Berry does the same, I think.)  My local cache hasn't been
updated since July.


> pe> 
> 
> pe> So you can sync from gnulib for now, using the following URLs:
> 
> pe> 
> http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/*checkout*/gnulib/gnulib/config/config.guess?rev=HEAD
> pe> 
> http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/*checkout*/gnulib/gnulib/config/config.sub?rev=HEAD
> 
> If I use "wget -O config.guess ..." then this works for me.  But I want
> to get the official versions, wherever they are.

I don't know of any official version right now.

Ben, would you like to have checkin privileges to gnulib?
Then you can simply install the latest versions there.

Re: config.sub, config.guess, and the GNU FTP site

[Paul Smith]

%% Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

  pe> The GNU FTP server has been frozen since late July; nothing new
  pe> has appeared on it.  I don't know what the holdup is.

It's not the entire server: the server was cracked (surely you heard
about this?) and so they took off all the content until it could be
verified to be correct.

The verification is complete for almost all the code, but Ben Elliston
(who, according to the FSF folks I talked to, owns these particular
files) has not responded to requests for help in verifying these files.

That's why I'm sending mail :).

  pe> gnulib currently keeps copies of several files like that in one
  pe> convenient place.  It slurps them from their canonical locations
  pe> automatically.

That's what I want to do.  How does gnulib do this?  Does it get then
via CVS checkout somehow?  Or, some other way?

It has copies of config.guess and config.sub, which I
  pe> think were the latest versions before the freeze occurred.  See:
  pe> 

  pe> So you can sync from gnulib for now, using the following URLs:

  pe> 
http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/*checkout*/gnulib/gnulib/config/config.guess?rev=HEAD
  pe> 
http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/*checkout*/gnulib/gnulib/config/config.sub?rev=HEAD

If I use "wget -O config.guess ..." then this works for me.  But I want
to get the official versions, wherever they are.

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config.sub, config.guess, and the GNU FTP site

[Paul Eggert]

The GNU FTP server has been frozen since late July; nothing new has
appeared on it.  I don't know what the holdup is.

I suggest that we find a new home for config.guess and config.sub in
the meantime.

gnulib currently keeps copies of several files like that in one
convenient place.  It slurps them from their canonical locations
automatically.  It has copies of config.guess and config.sub, which I
think were the latest versions before the freeze occurred.  See:


So you can sync from gnulib for now, using the following URLs:

http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/*checkout*/gnulib/gnulib/config/config.guess?rev=HEAD
http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/*checkout*/gnulib/gnulib/config/config.sub?rev=HEAD


Ben, would you like to have checkin privileges to gnulib?
Then you can simply install the latest versions there.