James Harrison wrote: > On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 08:52 +0100, Michael Kearns wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Having decided to have another go at LFS (been through the process a >> couple of times before, a few years back), I grabbed the 6.3 (amd64) >> LiveCD, and followed the latest development book. >> >> I downloaded all of the latest tool sources and patches (would be great >> to have a txt file on those pages, containing all of the URLs, to use >> with wget -i ), and followed through the book (which doesn't mention how >> to unpack the sources, not that it's very difficult, but...) >> >> > > Hi Michael, > > I just wanted to note that if you install the downloadthemall plugin for > firefox, and open downloadthemall on the download page, you have an > option to download archive files. These are .zip, .gzip. tar files, and > it provides the functionality you're looking for. > > Otherwise, you could download the page with python and use a regex to > pull out all the relevant links. Heck, I imagine you could download the > page with wget and use grep to find the ftp:\\ prefix and have just > about all of them. >
Hi James. Thanks for those suggestions. I'm (purposefully) making it a bit hard on myself by doing the install with a completely empty machine and just the LiveCD, so not sure the firefox plugin is quote so straightfoward, although I am impressed with quite how much X functionality I get from the LiveCD. The Python script is a great idea ;) As I mentioned, I ended up using page-info and copying the links from the 'links' tab, and just pasting them into a new text file to use with wget. Michael. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
