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 always ship an out of date version of manpages, and aren't aware (via 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
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