Re: texinfo 4.2 missing from ftp?

[Rob Krum]

Thank you Vita! And unfortunately, my browser history on the original machine doesn't go back far enough back to when I first needed texinfo 4.2, so I don't have my original source location documented. However I did find a sourceforge mailing archive from 2002 which lists a matching md5 to my archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/fink-commits@lists.sourceforge.net/msg04411.html

Unlike the Fedora texinfo, mine is a tar.gz archive, not a tar.bz2.

~Rob

On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 12:22 AM Vitezslav Crhonek <vcrhonek@redhat.com> wrote:

On 1/19/23 08:12, Gavin Smith wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 18, 2023 at 01:30:01PM -0800, Rob Krum wrote:
>> Greetings,
>> I've noticed that texinfo release 4.2 is missing from gnu's ftp archives,
>> but the manual still exists for it in the old-gnu archive. Texinfo 4.2 I
>> believe is the latest release that can be used to make binutils 2.16.1a.
>> I've found myself a copy, however I have nothing to prove it's a copy of
>> the original, unmodified release. Would it be possible to add this to the
>> ftp for preservation purposes? Thanks!
>
> I would like to get all the previous Texinfo releases if possible.  Would
> you email me the distribution file you have off-list and any information
> you have about its provenance?
>

Hi,

Releases of texinfo used in Fedora can be found here (texinfo-4.2
included):
https://src.fedoraproject.org/lookaside/pkgs/texinfo/

Given to Fedora guidelines they all should be unmodified. Later releases
are stored also with signature file.

Hope this helps
Vita