Re: Periodic connection timed out when downloading ncurses

[Sam James]

> On 2 Oct 2022, at 19:51, Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>> On 2 Oct 2022, at 12:04, Thomas Dickey <dickey@his.com> wrote:
>> [snip].
>> 
>>      It is also available via anonymous FTP at the GNU distribution site
>> 
>>      ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/ncurses/ .
>> 
>> which at the time were the canonical locations.  The GNU https site is
>> a mirror (or whatever) of ftp.gnu.org
>> 
>> [...]
>> 
>> The mirror site doesn't support ftp access, so that aspect was never an
>> issue.  It also is less capable in throughput, and doesn't come with a
>> service agreement.
>> 
>> LFS ought to recommend more than one location, because each of the above
>> (invisible-island.net, invisible-mirror.net and gnu.org) has problems
>> for different users.  Since LFS uses only the stable release, it could
>> recommend all three locations, letting its users determine what works
>> best.
>> 
> I'm assuming the answer is no, but is there any chance the development
> Patches could be thrown up on the GNU mirrors?
> 

... possibly on alpha.gnu.org which is for such purposes.

> Best,
> sam

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