glfs/introduction/welcome/packages.xml

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    <othername>$LastChangedBy: archaic $</othername>
    <date>$Date: 2004-08-09 23:25:57 -0500 (Mon, 09 Aug 2004) $</date>
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  <title>Getting the Source Packages</title>

  <para>Within the BLFS instructions, each package has two references for
  finding the source files for the package&mdash;a http link and an ftp link.
  Every effort has been made to ensure that these links are accurate.
  Howerver, the World Wide Web is in continuous flux.  Packages are
  moved or updated and the exact URL specified is not always available.</para>

  <para>To overcome this problem, the BLFS Team, with the assistance of <ulink
  url='http://www.serverbeach.com'>Server Beach</ulink>, has made a http/ftp site
  available at <emphasis>anduin.linuxfromscratch.org</emphasis>.  This site
  has all the sources of the exact versions of the packages used in BLFS.  If
  you can't find the BLFS package you need, get it there.</para>

  <para>We would like to ask a favor, however.  Although this is a public
  resource for you to use, we do not want to abuse it.  We have already had one
  unthinking individual download over 3 GB of data, including multiple copies of
  the same files that are placed at different locations (via symlinks) to make
  finding the right package easier.  This person clearly did not know what files
  he needed and downloaded everything.  The best place to download files
  is the site or sites set up by the source code developer.  Please try
  there first.</para>

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