[Clfs-dev] Broken Link in CLFS Developement

[Joe Ciccone]

Andrew Rowland wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-09-13 at 10:35 -0400, Joe Ciccone wrote:
>   
>> wwh04660 at ucmo.edu wrote:
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>>> 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.
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> 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.
>   
We already do, the book just doesn't point to them. I think it would
just be a crap load of excess bandwidth to do that. Not to mention, trac
puts a huge load on the server already.