| 1 | <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
|
|---|
| 2 | <!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
|
|---|
| 3 | "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
|
|---|
| 4 | <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
|
|---|
| 5 | %general-entities;
|
|---|
| 6 | ]>
|
|---|
| 7 |
|
|---|
| 8 | <sect1 id="packages" xreflabel="Getting the Source Packages">
|
|---|
| 9 | <?dbhtml filename="packages.html"?>
|
|---|
| 10 |
|
|---|
| 11 |
|
|---|
| 12 | <title>Getting the Source Packages</title>
|
|---|
| 13 |
|
|---|
| 14 | <para>Within the BLFS instructions, each package has two references for
|
|---|
| 15 | finding the source files for the package—an HTTP link and an FTP link
|
|---|
| 16 | (some packages may only list one of these links). Every effort has been made
|
|---|
| 17 | to ensure that these links are accurate. However, the World Wide Web is in
|
|---|
| 18 | continuous flux. Packages are sometimes moved or updated and the exact URL
|
|---|
| 19 | specified is not always available.</para>
|
|---|
| 20 |
|
|---|
| 21 | <para>To overcome this problem, the BLFS Team, with the assistance of Oregon
|
|---|
| 22 | State University Open Source Lab, has made an HTTP/FTP site available through
|
|---|
| 23 | world wide mirrors. See <ulink
|
|---|
| 24 | url="https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/download.html#sources">
|
|---|
| 25 | https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/download.html#sources</ulink> for a
|
|---|
| 26 | list. These sites have all the sources of the exact versions of the packages
|
|---|
| 27 | used in BLFS. If you can't find the BLFS package you need at the listed
|
|---|
| 28 | addresses, get it from these sites.</para>
|
|---|
| 29 |
|
|---|
| 30 | <para>We would like to ask a favor, however. Although this is a public
|
|---|
| 31 | resource for you to use, please do not abuse it. We have already had one
|
|---|
| 32 | unthinking individual download over 3 GB of data, including multiple copies of
|
|---|
| 33 | the same files that are placed at different locations (via symlinks) to make
|
|---|
| 34 | finding the right package easier. This person clearly did not know what files
|
|---|
| 35 | he needed and downloaded everything. The best place to download files
|
|---|
| 36 | is the site or sites set up by the source code developer. Please try
|
|---|
| 37 | there first.</para>
|
|---|
| 38 |
|
|---|
| 39 | </sect1>
|
|---|
