Re: Suggestion: Add option to use GNU mirrorlist for downloading sources

Am 18.11.25 um 22:58 schrieb Bruce Dubbs ([email protected] via
lfs-support Mailing List):
> On 11/18/25 3:25 PM, "Glitch (and Gummi)" ([email protected] via
> lfs-support Mailing List) wrote:
>> Hi there,
>> I recently had an exchange with a sysadmin from the FSF after I was
>> having trouble connecting to the GNU FTP server to download the
>> required packages for LFS. Apparently they were having problems with
>> DDoSes on their server, so they implemented a block on IP addresses
>> that made several requests in a short time. Unfortunately, as I was
>> downloading a large amount of packages from their server at the time
>> (as you do for LFS), I got caught in this ban and was no longer able
>> to connect.
>>
>> I eventually resolved this by `sed`ing the wget-list to point to a
>> mirror of the GNU FTP instead. As mentioned in the beginning, I
>> additionally emailed GNU directly about this and got in touch with one
>> of their sysadmins, who suggested I point to `ftpmirror.gnu.org` to
>> automatically get redirected to the fastest mirror. I have done this
>> when downloading subsequent source packages and it seems to work well.
>>
>> Interestingly, the sysadmin mentioned that he wanted to send a
>> suggestion to LFS, that they add a note advising users to point to
>> `ftpmirror.gnu.org` if they are having trouble connecting to the main
>> GNU FTP server. I agree that this would be useful advice, so I took
>> the liberty of writing out this suggestion myself. I don't know how
>> many people are experiencing connection issues with downloading
>> sources, but I could imagine adding a little note in the download
>> instructions could save some users a lot of hassle.
> 
> See the 'Important' note at
> https://rivendell.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/development/chapter03/introduction.html
There are 34 entries with "gnu.org" in the wget-list.  Changing them
manually would be a rather unreasonable task and not every beginner will
know how to do it with a sed.  So I suggest that the note lends a
helping hand in this respect.  I derived this from one of my scripts and
it may serve as an _example_:

gnu_impaired="https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/"
gnu_mirror="https://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/gnu/"
sed -i.orig "s#$gnu_impaired#$gnu_mirror#" wget-list


Rainer

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