please update manpages to latest (5.04) that will justify moving to new location for SRC_URI
On Tue, Nov 19, 2019 at 10:21 AM Khem Raj <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 always ship an out of date version of manpages, and aren't aware (via 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
