On Tue, Nov 19, 2019 at 10:14 AM Alexander Kanavin <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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/ >
I see that they are still carrying a release from 2013 in https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/man-pages/, I am hoping that they do keep the tarballs in this location for long enough. So it might not be such a bad thing to move to using it, I was thinking the cycle is smaller > 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 an out of date version of manpages, and aren't aware (via version check 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 -- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
