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

[Burton, Ross]

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.

Ross


Ross