Changeset ac421ac

Timestamp:

07/24/2019 01:54:42 AM (4 years ago)

Author:

Ken Moffat <ken@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.1, 11.0, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.0, 9.0, 9.1, kea, ken/inkscape-core-mods, lazarus, lxqt, plabs/python-mods, qt5new, trunk, upgradedb, xry111/intltool, xry111/soup3, xry111/test-20220226, xry111/xf86-video-removal

Children:

58b66af3

Parents:

e8d45427

Message:

Beyond BLFS - use a working link for fedora, unfortunately srpms only. The old cgit links via pagure no longer work, at best you might eventually find the most recent commit, but looking at specfiles and patches there is unreasonably hard.

git-svn-id: svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/trunk/BOOK@21856 af4574ff-66df-0310-9fd7-8a98e5e911e0

File:

• introduction/important/beyond.xml (modified) (1 diff)

introduction/important/beyond.xml

@@ -150 +150 @@
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
-          <para>Fedora
-          <ulink url="http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/"/> - this site
-          is still occasionally overloaded, but it is an easy way of looking at .spec
-          files and patches. If you know their name for the package (e.g. mesa.git)
-          you can append that to the URI to get to it.  If not, use the search box.
-          If the site is unavailable, try looking for a local mirror of ftp.fedora.com
-          (the primary site is usually unavailable if fedora cgit is not responding)
-          and download a source rpm to see what they do.</para>
+          <para>Fedora packages are now most-conveniently accessed by downloading
+          an srpm (source rpm) and using <application>rpm2cpio</application> (see
+          the Tip at the bottom of the page. Go to <ulink
+          url="https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/"/> and then choose
+          which repo you wish to look at - development/rawhide is the latest
+          development, or choose releases for what was shipped in a release,
+          updates for updates to a release, or updates/testing for the latest
+          updates which might work or might have problems.
+          </para>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>