Ticket #2037 (closed defect: invalid)

Opened 1 year ago

Last modified 1 year ago

LFS should not use www.kernel.org for downloading man-pages

Reported by: alexander@linuxfromscratch.org Assigned to: lfs-book@linuxfromscratch.org
Priority: normal Milestone:
Component: Book Version: SVN
Severity: normal Keywords:
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Description

The maintainer pushes old man-pages to the manpages/Old directory, and does not guarantee any finite lifetime of old tarballs even there. So the link in the book is not stable (it is almost certain to be dead in two weeks after a release), and this breaks jhalfs.

Thus, LFS should mirror man-pages on linuxfromscratch.org and point to this mirror as a recommended download location.

Change History

06/29/07 00:02:56 changed by alexander@linuxfromscratch.org

See also the thread starting at http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/6/28/83 - what should I answer there?

06/29/07 00:15:47 changed by bdubbs@linuxfromscratch.org

I don't see a problem with pointing the book to anduin and having the sources there. I would suggest that we purge old versions periodically with the exception of those versions referenced in stable books.

If we want to use kernel.org, we might suggest that they always put the latest version in the old/ directory and just make a symbolic link, not a copy, in the main directory. They might want to rename the directory to something like archive/ to imply latest + older versions of the files.

06/29/07 03:55:01 changed by alexander@linuxfromscratch.org

  • status changed from new to closed.
  • resolution set to invalid.

A stable location for tarballs (http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/manpages/Archive/) has been negotiated with upstream. As of r8177, it is used in the book.

10/05/07 07:53:16 changed by jhuntwork@linuxfromscratch.org

  • milestone deleted.

Milestone 6.3 deleted