Re: Update base-url for xorg downloads?

Am 04.11.25 um 20:05 schrieb "Douglas R. Reno"
([email protected] via blfs-dev Mailing List):
> On 10/23/25 12:25 PM, Rainer Fiebig ([email protected] via blfs-dev
> Mailing List) wrote:
>> 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
> 
> I know this is late, but as I'm just starting to return to things today
> - the reason why the downloads from x.org are slow is the same reason
> why ftp.gnu.org and freedesktop.org are struggling at times - the usage
> of AI crawlers consistently scraping their sites.
Obviously, those robo-pigs ransacking sites for digital truffles have
become a real menace to the internet and its users.  And not just that.

Today's developments make Isaac Asimov look rather naive, insofar as his
vision of robotics/AI entailed strict rules ("The Three Laws of
Robotics") that would govern that technology and thus offer protection
to mankind.  I assume that *not* having such rules was simply
unimaginable for this highly intelligent man.

> 
> As far as I'm aware there aren't mirrors for freedesktop hosted
> infrastructure (including x.org), but in the event that the site goes
> too slow or goes completely offline, users can get packages from
> https://ftp2.osuosl.org/pub/blfs/conglomeration/ - I personally still
> prefer the official sites but have had to use this recently myself!
Thanks for the info!

Rainer

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