[Clfs-dev] Broken Link in CLFS Developement

[Andrew Rowland]

On Sat, 2008-09-13 at 11:15 -0400, Joe Ciccone wrote:
> Andrew Rowland wrote:
> > On Sat, 2008-09-13 at 10:35 -0400, Joe Ciccone wrote:
> >   
> >> wwh04660 at ucmo.edu wrote:
> >>     
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>       
> >>> 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.
> >   
> 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.
I figured.  We all need to keep an eye on the URLs and have an errata
against (at least) the latest stable book.

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