How to download all sources ?

[Timothy Madden]

Hello

I would like to compile and install X, but the dwonload site and all the
mirrors have dozens of source tarballs for me to download, just for one
revision (R7.4), in many directories.

How can I download all sources at once ? In one tarball ?

Thank you,
Timothy Madden

[Steven J Masta]

Not quite what you asked for - but there should be a 'everything'
directory on the ftp site eg
ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/xorg/X11R7.4/src/everything/
where all the individual tarballs are. If your ftp program allows it,
you can then get (or mget) *.bz2 (or *.gz)

Steve

[Timothy Madden]

Thank you.
Is there a way to know the build order in advance ? Without having to
try first to see ?

Timothy Madden

[Steven J Masta]

I haven't compiled it myself (yet), but this might help you out:
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/stable/x/installing.html

You also might want to look at how your favorite Linux/BSD does it.

Steve