Changeset 3ba0339 for introduction/welcome/packages.xml
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- 05/07/2005 06:31:09 PM (19 years ago)
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r9e5fc16 r3ba0339 7 7 8 8 <sect1 id="intro-welcome-packages" xreflabel="Getting the Source Packages"> 9 <sect1info> 10 <othername>$LastChangedBy: archaic $</othername> 11 <date>$Date: 2004-08-09 23:25:57 -0500 (Mon, 09 Aug 2004) $</date> 12 </sect1info> 9 <?dbhtml filename="packages.html"?> 13 10 14 <?dbhtml filename="packages.html"?> 15 <title>Getting the Source Packages</title> 11 <sect1info> 12 <othername>$LastChangedBy: archaic $</othername> 13 <date>$Date: 2004-08-09 23:25:57 -0500 (Mon, 09 Aug 2004) $</date> 14 </sect1info> 16 15 17 <para>Within the BLFS instructions, each package has two references for 18 finding the source files for the package—a http link and an ftp link. 19 Every effort has been made to ensure that these links are accurate. 20 Howerver, the World Wide Web is in continuous flux. Packages are 21 moved or updated and the exact URL specified is not always available.</para> 16 <title>Getting the Source Packages</title> 22 17 23 <para>To overcome this problem, the BLFS Team, with the assistance of <ulink 24 url='http://www.serverbeach.com'>Server Beach</ulink>, has made a http/ftp site 25 available at <emphasis>anduin.linuxfromscratch.org</emphasis>. This site 26 has all the sources of the 27 exact versions of the packages used in BLFS. If you can't find the BLFS 28 package you need, get it there.</para> 18 <para>Within the BLFS instructions, each package has two references for 19 finding the source files for the package—a http link and an ftp link. 20 Every effort has been made to ensure that these links are accurate. 21 Howerver, the World Wide Web is in continuous flux. Packages are 22 moved or updated and the exact URL specified is not always available.</para> 29 23 30 <para>We would like to ask a favor, however. Although this is a public 31 resource for you to use, we do not want to 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> 24 <para>To overcome this problem, the BLFS Team, with the assistance of <ulink 25 url='http://www.serverbeach.com'>Server Beach</ulink>, has made a http/ftp site 26 available at <emphasis>anduin.linuxfromscratch.org</emphasis>. This site 27 has all the sources of the exact versions of the packages used in BLFS. If 28 you can't find the BLFS package you need, get it there.</para> 29 30 <para>We would like to ask a favor, however. Although this is a public 31 resource for you to use, we do not want to 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 38 39 39 </sect1>
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