Re: Update base-url for xorg downloads?

On 10/23/25 10:24 AM, Rainer Fiebig ([email protected] via blfs-dev Mailing List) wrote:
> Maybe the base-url for xorg-downloads needs to be updated.
> 
> Testing a script, I downloaded several xorg-packages, using the urls in
> the latest wget-list for BLFS.  Those downloads took unusually long.
> 
> Suspecting a gnu-like problem, I checked out x.org.  Turned out that the
> current base-url for downloads is
> https://www.x.org/releases/individual/
> 
> In BLFS it is
> https://www.x.org/pub/individual/

I went here...

> The latter redirects to
> https://www.x.org/archive/individual/

True.

> which may be the reason for the slow downloads, I speculate.
> 
> At any rate, after updating the urls in the wget-list, I could download
> xorg packages at the usual speed.

However the pages came up almost instantaneously for me and I did not
see any download speed issue.

   -- Bruce

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