Re: Upgrading from 6.8.2

2010-02-24 Thread Daniel Stone
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 02:05:42AM -0500, paul rogers wrote: My system(s) is LFS based. I think it's time to upgrade. My 6.8.2 is brmonolithic, and I certainly see the advantage of not being required to brdownload the whole thing just to get some updated parts, particularly bras I'm on

[RE]Upgrading from 6.8.2

2010-02-24 Thread paul rogers
>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

Re: [RE]Upgrading from 6.8.2

2010-02-24 Thread Peter Harris
On 2010-02-24 12:59, paul rogers wrote: 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. http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/wget.htm Or just use your favourite download

Upgrading from 6.8.2

2010-02-23 Thread paul rogers
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