[OE-core] Uncommon source deployment policy of live555

[Khem Raj]

On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 3:29 AM, Steffen Sledz <sledz at dresearch-fe.de> wrote:
> On 25.11.2011 12:21, Koen Kooi wrote:
>>
>> Op 25 nov. 2011, om 12:05 heeft Steffen Sledz het volgende geschreven:
>>
>>> The LIVE555 project has a really uncommon source deployment policy. :(
>>>
>>> They publish *only* the latest tarball of their code [1]. And they don't make the code available under a source code repository [2].
>>>
>>> I've asked to change this policy but they are not willing to do that [3].
>>>
>>> How can we handle this?
>>> Does OE provides a "mirror" server to provide the versions we're referencing?
>>
>> Angstrom has had such a mirror ever since it started and it has the following live555 releases:
>
> Great.
>
> So there's no need to change the recipes. This server is used automatically. Right?
>

for angstrom yes the mirror is a fallback


>> live.2009.06.02.tar.gz
>> live.2010.04.09.tar.gz
>> live.2010.05.29.tar.gz
>> live.2010.10.15.tar.gz
>> live.2011.01.10.tar.gz
>> live.2011.03.14.tar.gz
>
> I'd like to see the current live.2011.11.20.tar.gz there too. Who's maintaining such requests?

as another backup you can also put this up on
sources.openemebedded.org, send it to ka6sox