Re: Bash-4.4-beta2 available for download

[Chet Ramey]

On 7/13/16 10:00 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 09:38:51PM -0400, Chet Ramey wrote:
>> The second beta release of bash-4.4 is now available with the URL
>>
>> ftp://ftp.cwru.edu/pub/bash/bash-4.4-beta2.tar.gz
>>
>> and via git from
>>
>> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/bash.git/?h=bash-4.4-testing
> 
> I have been utterly unable to retrieve the file from the FTP server,
> from three different machines (two of them firewalled, one of them a
> non-firewalled VPS).  Passive mode times out, and active mode gives a
> "bind: address already in use" error.  

Strange.  I had no trouble getting it from ftp.cwru.edu or ftp.gnu.org.

geirha suggested:
> 
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/bash.git/snapshot/bash-4.4-beta2.tar.gz
> 
> so I tried that.  But there is some doubt about whether this is the
> same as the ftp.cwru.edu tarball.  (Maybe post an SHA-1 for it?)

It's not different, just laid onto the testing branch so you can get diffs.

Chet
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