Changeset ca1500d

Timestamp:

08/22/2012 03:29:15 PM (12 years ago)

Author:

Ken Moffat <ken@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.1, 11.0, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.0, 12.1, 12.2, 7.10, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, 7.6-blfs, 7.6-systemd, 7.7, 7.8, 7.9, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.0, 9.1, basic, bdubbs/svn, elogind, gimp3, gnome, kde5-13430, kde5-14269, kde5-14686, kea, ken/TL2024, ken/inkscape-core-mods, ken/tuningfonts, krejzi/svn, lazarus, lxqt, nosym, perl-modules, plabs/newcss, plabs/python-mods, python3.11, qt5new, rahul/power-profiles-daemon, renodr/vulkan-addition, systemd-11177, systemd-13485, trunk, upgradedb, xry111/for-12.3, xry111/intltool, xry111/llvm18, xry111/soup3, xry111/spidermonkey128, xry111/test-20220226, xry111/xf86-video-removal

Children:

f5ee8c2

Parents:

18c9e9f1

Message:

Change the fedora link to cgit instead of the obsolete gitweb.

git-svn-id: svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/trunk/BOOK@10535 af4574ff-66df-0310-9fd7-8a98e5e911e0

File:

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

introduction/important/beyond.xml

@@ -151 +151 @@
         <listitem>
           <para>Fedora
-          <ulink url="http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/"/> - this site
-          is often overloaded since they moved to git-web, but when available it is
-          an easy way of looking at .spec files and patches. If unavailable, try
+          <ulink url="http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/"/> - this site
+          is still occasionally overloaded, and somewhat hard to navigate (nearly
+          300 pages, linked by number) 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 unavailable, try
           looking for a local mirror of ftp.fedora.com (the primary site is usually
-          unavailable when fedora gitweb is not responding) and download a source
+          unavailable if fedora cgit is not responding) and download a source
           rpm to see what they do.</para>
         </listitem>