Changeset e306dae for chapter04/introduction.xml

Timestamp:

12/11/2002 02:00:18 AM (21 years ago)

Author:

Gerard Beekmans <gerard@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.0-rc1, 10.1, 10.1-rc1, 11.0, 11.0-rc1, 11.0-rc2, 11.0-rc3, 11.1, 11.1-rc1, 11.2, 11.2-rc1, 11.3, 11.3-rc1, 12.0, 12.0-rc1, 12.1, 12.1-rc1, 6.0, 6.1, 6.1.1, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6, 6.7, 6.8, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 7.5-systemd, 7.6, 7.6-systemd, 7.7, 7.7-systemd, 7.8, 7.8-systemd, 7.9, 7.9-systemd, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.0, 9.1, arm, bdubbs/gcc13, ml-11.0, multilib, renodr/libudev-from-systemd, s6-init, trunk, v4_1, v5_0, v5_1, v5_1_1, xry111/arm64, xry111/arm64-12.0, xry111/clfs-ng, xry111/lfs-next, xry111/loongarch, xry111/loongarch-12.0, xry111/loongarch-12.1, xry111/mips64el, xry111/pip3, xry111/rust-wip-20221008, xry111/update-glibc

Children:

df8574e

Parents:

70ad6d7

Message:

changed links in chap4 to freshmeat links

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@2230 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

File:

• chapter04/introduction.xml (modified) (1 diff)

chapter04/introduction.xml

@@ -1 @@
-<sect1 id="ch03-introduction">
+<sect1 id="ch04-introduction">
 <title>Introduction</title>
-<?dbhtml filename="introduction.html" dir="chapter03"?>
+<?dbhtml filename="introduction.html" dir="chapter04"?>
 
 <para>Below is a list of packages you need to download for building a
 basic Linux system. The listed version numbers correspond to versions
-of the software that are known to work, and this book is based
-upon them.</para>
+of the software that are known to work, and this book is based upon
+them. Feel free to try out newer versions, but if you experience problems
+with those versions, please try the recommended version first before
+sending bug reports.</para>
 
-<para>All the URL's below refer to the main LFS server. There are several
-FTP mirrors available from which you can download the files as well. The
-addresses of these can be found in <xref linkend="ch01-mirrors"/>.</para>
+<para>All the URL's, when possible, refer to the project's page at
+<ulink url="http://www.freshmeat.net">Freshmeat.net</ulink>. The Freshmeat
+pages will give you easy access to the official download sites as well as
+project websites, mailinglists, FAQ's, Changelogs and more.</para>
 
-<para>The LFS FTP archive only contains the versions of the packages that
-are used in this book. You can check the official download sites provided
-in <xref linkend="appendixa"/> to determine whether or not a newer package
-is available. If you do download a newer package, we would appreciate
-hearing whether you were able to install the package without any problems
-using this book's instructions.</para>
+<para>For your convenience the top of the list contains a link to a file
+you can use with the <ulink url="http://wget.sunsite.dk">wget</ulink>
+program. Using this file and the <userinput>wget</userinput> program will
+make it easy to download all the files at once, rather than downloading each
+and every individual file manually.</para>
 
 </sect1>