"Paul Smith" <pausmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > The verification is complete for almost all the code, but Ben Elliston > (who, according to the FSF folks I talked to, owns these particular > files) has not responded to requests for help in verifying these files. That could be because he moved from Red Hat to Wasabi Systems earlier this year. I'll CC: this message to Wasabi. Perhaps his email is no longer forwarded from Red Hat, as he moved several months ago. Quite possibly he's on vacation, as well. > pe> gnulib currently keeps copies of several files like that in one > pe> convenient place. It slurps them from their canonical locations > pe> automatically. > > That's what I want to do. How does gnulib do this? Does it get then > via CVS checkout somehow? Or, some other way? I put them into a local cache, and then commit the cache to gnulib. (Karl Berry does the same, I think.) My local cache hasn't been updated since July. > pe> <http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/gnulib/gnulib/config/> > > pe> So you can sync from gnulib for now, using the following URLs: > > pe> http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/*checkout*/gnulib/gnulib/config/config.guess?rev=HEAD > pe> http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/*checkout*/gnulib/gnulib/config/config.sub?rev=HEAD > > If I use "wget -O config.guess ..." then this works for me. But I want > to get the official versions, wherever they are. I don't know of any official version right now. Ben, would you like to have checkin privileges to gnulib? Then you can simply install the latest versions there.
