Mirror time

I've received a few reports about source code download problems and MD5 checksum failures.

MD5 issues
The MD5 failures are almost always for the LFS bootscripts and Udev configuration tarball. This issue is mostly my fault, as I placed the development URL for these sources in the scripts. The development sources are re-created daily by the LFS folks, thereby also changing the checksum daily. The next LFScript revision will reference the proper 6.8 download locations.

It's worth noting that whenever I fix something like this, you can download the fixed files from the development repository (http://www.wuala.com/marcelvdboer/Sync/lfscript-4.0). Also, if a bug report has been filed, it will be set to "Fix committed" indicating you can download it from that repository.

Source code repository
There are also people who don't like the fact that after a revision of LFScript has been released for some time, some source code packages are not downloaded automatically any more. This is due to the fact that some developers move or even remove source code from the web whenever a new version of their software is released. Though it seems easy enough to go to Google, type in the missing file name, then download it manually to the sources directory, people still complain about this.

To solve this issue, I'm now building a source code mirror of my own, and the next revision of LFScript will automatically try this repository if a primary URL is down. I didn't want to link to third party repositories because of the (remote) possibility it will increase their traffic too much. The repository will contain source code for scripts included in the most recent version of LFScript only.

The repository is accessible through http://lfscript.org/sources. You can use this link to verify the repository contains a required file (and then let me know if it doesn't, so I can fix it), but you should not download files manually from there. Use LFScript to download your files.

It's still under some construction, but the repository should be fully populated by the time the next revision of LFScript is released.