From e306dae2a9b25313d4ceed85d5d53538ca5dd445 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gerard Beekmans Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 02:00:18 +0000 Subject: changed links in chap4 to freshmeat links git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@2230 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689 --- chapter04/introduction.xml | 28 +++++++++++++++------------- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) (limited to 'chapter04/introduction.xml') diff --git a/chapter04/introduction.xml b/chapter04/introduction.xml index 9ca68e984..859b5dbc0 100644 --- a/chapter04/introduction.xml +++ b/chapter04/introduction.xml @@ -1,22 +1,24 @@ - + Introduction - + 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. +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. -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 . +All the URL's, when possible, refer to the project's page at +Freshmeat.net. The Freshmeat +pages will give you easy access to the official download sites as well as +project websites, mailinglists, FAQ's, Changelogs and more. -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 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. +For your convenience the top of the list contains a link to a file +you can use with the wget +program. Using this file and the wget program will +make it easy to download all the files at once, rather than downloading each +and every individual file manually. -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf