Sunday afternoon, using WinXP's ftp client I downloaded everything from 7.5's everything/* using mget. All the files are corrupt, using "tar -tjvf ..." in some cases after showing the first file in the archive. The md5sums for several I spot checked didn't match either. In same session I
Sheesh. I suppose I should have expected something like that, it's
Windows after all. I keep wanting to use Windows less and less.
>Make sure you've set download type to Binary in the WinXP FTP client.
>IIRC, it's Text by default, which would mangle the tarball.
paulgrog...@lycos.com
>wget -r -np http://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.5/src/everything/
Alas, the occasional high-speed access I'll have would be using
a friend's XP system--no wget, AFAIK. So there IS no single
tarball bundle? Bummer!
paulgrog...@lycos.com
TANSTAAFL (There ain't no such thing as a free lunch)
Not
My system(s) is LFS based. I think it's time to upgrade. My 6.8.2 is
monolithic, and I certainly see the advantage of not being required to
download the whole thing just to get some updated parts, particularly
as I'm on dial-up still. :( But I don't find a need to run SVN or CVS
locally, and I
