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

On 10/13/2024 12:04 AM, DFS wrote:

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!

So I ran wget with the --no-verbose option, and in the much more sparse output spotted exactly 3 'Unable to establish SSL connection.' messages scroll by.
It didn't list the filenames it was trying to get, so I had to find them in the wget-list by looking at the previous and next filenames.
The missing files were:
https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf/autoconf-2.72.tar.xz
https://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/expect/expect5.45.4.tar.gz
https://sourceforge.net/projects/psmisc/files/psmisc/psmisc-23.7.tar.xz
1 from gnu.org and 2 from sourceforge.
The failure log file was again empty.  In the minds of wget developers, 'Unable to establish SSL connection.' doesn't count as rejected.
Anyway, I downloaded the 3 files manually with no problems.  Task complete!
Instead of this fiasco, the LFS devs should've created a small tarball with all 94 required files in it, and nobody would be subjected to such shenanigans.
The moral is don't give up, and don't let the hobbyists beat you.