[Clfs-dev] Broken Link in CLFS Developement

[Andrew Rowland]

On Sat, 2008-09-13 at 10:35 -0400, Joe Ciccone wrote:
> wwh04660 at ucmo.edu wrote:
> >
> > On Sep 13, 2008, at 9:11 AM, Joe Ciccone wrote:
> >
> >> Andrew Rowland wrote:
> >>> Found that the link for module-init-tools in the PowerPC book is
> >>> broken.
> >>> The following link works...
> >>>
> >>> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/module-init-tools/module-init-tools-3.4.tar.bz2
> >>>
> >>>
> >> Going through old emails I just noticed this one, Surprised no-one
> >> reported this link broken.
> >
> > That makes books for 1.1.0-rc3 wrong, too because well,
> > module-init-tools has moved:
> >
> > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/jcm/module-init-tools/README
> >
> I did update this for the 1.1.0 branch.
> >
> > I built for ppc64 a few months ago before Joe released 1.1.0 rc1.
> >
> > We all did a bunch of testing, however I didn't follow the links in
> > the book.
> > download-lists is what I used.
> >
> > Good catch. Although, I'm afraid that more links are going to bread
> > even before release and after release.
> >
> This is always a possibility beyond our control.
I'm sure this has been been considered and determined completely stupid,
but how about keeping the tarballs for the latest stable release on the
CLFS server?  Then it's not beyond our control.  According to du -h on
my machine, all of the tarballs and patches occupy 211M.  And I believe
that's every arch.  Just my 2 cents.

> > Nice to get them up to date now, but in the future, people can still
> > download everything from known locations
> > all around the internet and from CLFS archives. Homepage links are
> > less likely to be valid than the links pointing to the files as most
> > projects will remove the old version when a new one is released.
> Yup, I'm going to verify it by making a download-list and then
> attempting to download everything.
> >
> > I'll look through all the links again before release is imminent. I
> > think tomorrow, Joe?
> >
> It couldn't hurt to have a second pair of eyes.
> 
> It seems like tomorrow is the day. There haven't been any proposed major
> changes, or really even minor changes. (Besides text)
> 
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