[OE-core] [meta-oe][PATCH 1/2] chrpath: fix SRC_URI

[Alexander Kanavin]

2018-06-02 16:45 GMT+03:00 Oleksandr Kravchuk
<open.source at oleksandr-kravchuk.com>:
>> It's better to stick with debian, the tarball is still available
>> through ${DEBIAN_MIRROR}:
>> http://http.debian.net/debian/pool/main/c/chrpath/chrpath_0.16.orig.tar.gz
>>
>> Can you also investigate the other instances of alioth, namely shadow
>> and minicom please?
>>
>> Alex
>
>
> This is a subjective statement. Having mirrors is great, but having a
> working SRC_URI in the recipe and mirrors five times great: I have seen both
> original source and the mirror being inaccessible for a period of time
> multiple times.

${DEBIAN_MIRROR} is not a mirror for alioth, it's a mirror for debian
packages repository and their original tarballs. The place where
apt-get looks for .deb packages in Debian. So it's unlikely to go
offline.

As chrpath is a debian project, we should prefer taking it from Debian
rather than other sources. That way it is more likely that it will be
kept up to date.

Alex