Re: [lfs-dev] Formatting of Package download URIs

2020-11-12 Thread Kevin Buckley via lfs-dev
On Thu, 12 Nov 2020 at 22:35, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote: > > When LFS was originally developed, a single URL was deemed sufficient. > When BLFS was started we wanted an ftp URL because LFS had an ftp > client, but we also wanted to offer http access. > > Over the years, upstream has changed an

Re: [lfs-dev] Formatting of Package download URIs

2020-11-12 Thread Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev
On 11/12/20 12:37 AM, Kevin Buckley via lfs-dev wrote: On Wed, 11 Nov 2020 at 23:57, Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev wrote: Adding a link in package page will make it easier when some LFS package need to be upgraded in a completed system. -- Not sure that that's enough of a justification for having a

Re: [lfs-dev] Formatting of Package download URIs

2020-11-11 Thread Kevin Buckley via lfs-dev
On Wed, 11 Nov 2020 at 23:57, Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev wrote: > > Adding a link in package page will make it easier when some LFS package need > to > be upgraded in a completed system. > -- Not sure that that's enough of a justification for having a BLFS style meta-info block, simply because the li

Re: [lfs-dev] Formatting of Package download URIs

2020-11-11 Thread Kevin Buckley via lfs-dev
On Wed, 11 Nov 2020 at 23:53, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote: > > On 11/11/20 3:21 AM, Kevin Buckley via lfs-dev wrote: > > I was recently trying to generate a downlaod listing of the packages I had > > used > > when building my Pkguser based 9.1 system, inclduing the BLFS components > > that I'd

Re: [lfs-dev] Formatting of Package download URIs

2020-11-11 Thread Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev
On 2020-11-11 09:53 -0600, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote: > On 11/11/20 3:21 AM, Kevin Buckley via lfs-dev wrote: > > I was recently trying to generate a downlaod listing of the packages I had > > used > > when building my Pkguser based 9.1 system, inclduing the BLFS components > > that I'd merged

Re: [lfs-dev] Formatting of Package download URIs

2020-11-11 Thread Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev
On 11/11/20 3:21 AM, Kevin Buckley via lfs-dev wrote: I was recently trying to generate a downlaod listing of the packages I had used when building my Pkguser based 9.1 system, inclduing the BLFS components that I'd merged into a single book. FWIW, so as to see what I needed to download from BLF

[lfs-dev] Formatting of Package download URIs

2020-11-11 Thread Kevin Buckley via lfs-dev
I was recently trying to generate a downlaod listing of the packages I had used when building my Pkguser based 9.1 system, inclduing the BLFS components that I'd merged into a single book. FWIW, so as to see what I needed to download from BLFS 10.0 I noticed that in BLFS, where the package downlo