[OE-core] [PATCH 7/8] mesa: switch over to official git

[Alexander Kanavin]

On Fri, 31 May 2019 at 18:27, Burton, Ross <ross.burton at intel.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 31 May 2019 at 17:25, Richard Purdie
> <richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2019-05-31 at 17:56 +0200, Alexander Kanavin wrote:
> > > The tarballs for all versions prior to 18.x have been moved to
> > > https://mesa.freedesktop.org/archive/older-versions/
> > >
> > > To avoid this practice causing fetching failures in the future,
> > > let's use the git.
> >
> > I'm really not sure we want to move things over to git, it does end up
> > making the build process slower as they take longer to fetch, unpack
> > and clean up :/.
>
> Maybe explain to upstream that this older-versions/ thing is just a
> bit annoying for distros and they'll remove it?
>
> The alternative is to do what libpng already does for this situation:
>
> recipes-multimedia/libpng/libpng_1.6.37.bb:
> MIRRORS += "${SOURCEFORGE_MIRROR}/project/${BPN}/${BPN}${LIBV}/${PV}/
> ${SOURCEFORGE_MIRROR}/project/${BPN}/${BPN}${LIBV}/older-releases/${PV}/"
>
> Not pretty, but it works.
>

Anyway, I dropped the patches, and updated mesa-demos to 8.4.0 instead.
They published the 8.4.0 tarball where upstream version checker didn't
look, and so 8.3.0 was reported as latest :-( It's this lack of consistency
about where mesa upstream places tarballs which makes me reluctant to add
the MIRRORS hack.

Alex
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