Re: Update base-url for xorg downloads?

Am 23.10.25 um 17:40 schrieb Bruce Dubbs ([email protected] via
blfs-dev Mailing List):
> 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.
OK, so perhaps what I saw was just an anomaly.  But I'll leave the sed
to substitute the current base-url for the old (?) one in my script.  It
won't hurt, I think.

I did the same with the gnu-urls because the problem with slow downloads
still exists, at least as of Oct. 21.  I found this helpful for chosing
a suitable mirror: https://download.savannah.gnu.org/mirmon/allgnu/.

Rainer

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