Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760922AbXF1Qdb (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jun 2007 12:33:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756745AbXF1QdY (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jun 2007 12:33:24 -0400 Received: from relay4.usu.ru ([194.226.235.39]:51762 "EHLO relay4.usu.ru" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755257AbXF1QdX (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jun 2007 12:33:23 -0400 Message-ID: <4683E2CB.8090100@ums.usu.ru> Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 22:33:15 +0600 From: "Alexander E. Patrakov" User-Agent: IceDove 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070329) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael Kerrisk Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Rob Landley Subject: Re: man-pages-2.59 and man-pages-2.60 are released References: <467F8FCF.4080009@gmx.net> <4683BC76.8070805@ums.usu.ru> <20070628161720.298550@gmx.net> In-Reply-To: <20070628161720.298550@gmx.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AV-Checked: ClamAV using ClamSMTP@relay4 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1616 Lines: 39 Michael Kerrisk wrote: > How about a link in /pub/linux/docs/manpages/ of the form > "LATEST-IS-m.xy"? Rob Landley was wanting something like this, > and I guess it would be easy for LFS to build a simple > script that looks for that link and deduces "man-pages-m.xy" > from it. (I've just now created such a link in the directory, > as an example.) We don't care about the latest version, so the link neither helps nor hurts us. What's needed is that the URL and the MD5 sum for a version in the book don't change, and that LFS developers have a reasonable time (say, two weeks) to react to version updates. We don't want every other SVN commit to the book source to be a version update of man-pages :) E.g., currently, the book at http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/development/chapter03/packages.html says: Man-pages (2.56) - 1,764 KB: Download: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/manpages/man-pages-2.56.tar.bz2 MD5 sum: 4144874a924b0a8d1f67e19f70d13f08 The script parses this information out of the XML source of the book, downloads the package and installs it according to the instructions found elsewhere in the book. The script (jhalfs) and the book can be downloaded from svn: svn co svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/ALFS/jhalfs/trunk jhalfs svn co svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK lfs -- Alexander E. Patrakov - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/