Changeset df4bcb1 for introduction/important

Timestamp:

08/26/2013 03:43:33 PM (11 years ago)

Author:

Ken Moffat <ken@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.1, 11.0, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.0, 12.1, 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, 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/intltool, xry111/llvm18, xry111/soup3, xry111/test-20220226, xry111/xf86-video-removal

Children:

18c9ee54

Parents:

b2c248d

Message:

Links to other distros - improve wording re fedora (they have a search box now), replace pld (link was dead, distro seems defunct), add link to openSUSE factory source rpms.

git-svn-id: svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/trunk/BOOK@11701 af4574ff-66df-0310-9fd7-8a98e5e911e0

File:

• introduction/important/beyond.xml (modified) (2 diffs)

introduction/important/beyond.xml

@@ -152 +152 @@
           <para>Fedora
           <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
+          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 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>
+          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>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
@@ -174 +173 @@
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
-          <para>PLD
-          <ulink url="http://cvs.pld-linux.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/packages/"/> -
-          another distro which uses rpms, cvsweb provides access to patches and the
-          spec files.</para>
+          <para>openSUSE
+          <ulink url="http://download.opensuse.org/factory/repo/src-oss/suse/src/"/> -
+          source only seems to be available in source rpms.</para>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>