[Clfs-dev] Download utility for final system

[Martin Ward]

On 02/09/12 03:47, William Harrington wrote:
> Greetings All,
>
> An issue we need to discuss.
>
> In the final system we do not have an ftp client (which can be used to 
> ftp to a server to get curl or wget or whatever other utility to 
> download packages for cblfs).
>
> We can do two things here:
>
> get rid of iputils and install inetutils, which we dropped as it 
> wasn't being maintained and is now.
>
sounds like a good idea to me
> build wget in final-system without openssl support (people can grab 
> openssl after final system then rebuild wget with openssl support)
>
> curl is another option,however, wget is enough.
>
> I'd like input into this as we have no client ftp or http to download 
> packages with a minimal build which needs something to download 
> packages for going beyond CLFS.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Wiliam Harringotn
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regards

martin