On Tue, Nov 19, 2019 at 8:11 AM Alexander Kanavin <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Nov 2019 at 16:51, Khem Raj <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> think about building a release after many years, if we do not have to >> update SRC_URI to point to archive then its one less things to do >> given that the same copies are in archive for current releases too >> its just better for long term. >> > > Building a release after many years without having a preserved local copy > of DL_DIR is asking for trouble, regardless of whether man-pages comes from > archive or not. Other things will have changed their location or vanished > off the internet in the meantime, even though they supposedly come from > 'stable' locations. But if you have a DL_DIR, then you don't need to fix > the recipes at all. > Please look at the stable yocto releases in past and see how many patches have been suggested or applied just to update src_uri Usually new users start with stable releases a lot of times due to their work asking them to or some other reason and they may not have all dl_dir stuff If I was asking you to store the tarball some place in arctic then I would understand your concern but in this case I am not able to. can you describe why using archive location is not suitable here perhaps that will help me > > Alex > >
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