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Dev tools · March 12, 2015

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Wget-finder

Since some days ago I’ve been playing with bifrost-build, a github repository with recipes for building static linux binaries. The recipes are no different from other linux distributions where an…

Wget-finder launched on March 12, 2015 with 130 votes, #225 of 2,697 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 11 years on.

In plain words

Wget-finder is a development tool that helps locate alternative download sources for software archives used in static Linux binary builds. It addresses the problem of broken or unavailable package mirrors by finding working URLs from alternative sources, making it easier to maintain and rebuild Linux utilities through the bifrost-build recipe system.

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Since some days ago I’ve been playing with bifrost-build , a github repository with recipes for building static linux binaries. The recipes are no different from other linux distributions where an archive hardcoded (containing the original source code) needs to be downloaded and match an specific hash (in this case a md5sum) to continue the build. While I was reviewing the recipes I noticed than some origins wheren’t available anymore. Fortunately there are plenty of mirrors for the most common utils installed with any linux system, so it wasn’t difficult to find alternative urls from where to fetch the missing bits (thanks mirrors and bifrost-build!). After completing the builds I though…from javier.io

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