I never said they are modifying files in place, I think you misunderstood me somehow. 'Archive' in this discussion is a folder on a server with tarballs, not a tarball.
Maybe it's easier if I provide clickable links: https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/man-pages/ https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/man-pages/Archive/ Alex On Tue, 19 Nov 2019 at 19:08, Christopher Larson <[email protected]> wrote: > The whole point of having PV in the filename is ensuring it won’t change > out from under us. If they’re modifying files in place that’s going to > cause us headaches whether we pull from archive or not due to checksum > changes. > On Nov 19, 2019, 9:46 AM -0700, Alexander Kanavin <[email protected]>, > wrote: > > On Tue, 19 Nov 2019 at 17:38, Khem Raj <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> 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 >> > > The archive location is missing several latest releases of man-pages, > which are only available from the main location. Which means that we always > ship an out of date version of manpages, and aren't aware (via version > check tooling) that later versions exist. > > Alex > >
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