Re: Good Intro to the GuhNoo hobbyware nightmare (was All Hail "Linux From Scratch!")

On 10/12/2024 12:12 PM, Lameass Larry Piet wrote:

Linux From Scratch (LFS)

Although I don't plan to ever do a LFS, I download the book and starter files every few years just in case I want some hassles in my life.
I tried the download tonight, but just doing that - which should be simple - is a GuhNoo hobbyware fiasco.
LFS says there are 94 starter files:
https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/downloads/stable/wget-list
So I create a LFS/files directory and put the wget-list in there, plus create a failure log text file to track if any downloads fail.
Then run wget compiled for Windows:
GNU Wget 1.21.4 built on mingw32.
command
$ wget -c -i wget-list.txt --rejected-log=fails.txt
It does its thing and downloads... 91 files.  3 are missing.
----------------------------------------------------
FINISHED --2024-10-12 22:33:48--
Total wall clock time: 1m 42s
Downloaded: 91 files, 513M in 1m 4s (8.02 MB/s)
----------------------------------------------------
Surely the failure log will have 3 entries I can download manually and finish the task.
But no such luck.  fails.txt is empty.
I guess the LFS devs expect their victims to parse the 94 file names out of the wget-list, then visually or programmatically compare them to the 91 files that were actually downloaded.
Or know what to look for in the 1165 lines of wget output to find 3 failed downloads.
I think I get it, LFS: it's a test, to see if victims can handle crapware problems from the get-go.
This!  Is!  Linux!