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Re: Outdated links to GNU downloads
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: Outdated links to GNU downloads |
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Mon, 19 Oct 2020 14:42:36 -0400 |
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On 10/19/20 4:59 AM, Daniels Umanovskis wrote:
> Documentation issue, applies to all configurations, both on master and 5.1
> testing branches.
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> The links to GNU downloads in the docs are broken. The downloads have been
> unavailable over plain FTP for over 2 years now. ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub is
> disabled, and accessing the downloads over HTTPS is the current way.
This just isn't the case. I just retrieved bash-5.1-rc1 from ftp.gnu.org
using a plain old ftp client.
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