[OE-core] [PATCH 13/13] man-pages: correct the SRC_URI

Khem Raj raj.khem at gmail.com
Tue Nov 19 15:51:05 UTC 2019


On Tue, Nov 19, 2019 at 3:41 AM Alexander Kanavin
<alex.kanavin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 18 Nov 2019 at 21:09, Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 6:33 AM Alexander Kanavin
>> <alex.kanavin at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > The homepage: https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/download.html
>> > specifies that the latest tarballs are published one level up
>> > from where we currently take them.
>> >
>>
>> archive is a better location for what it's worth. Since long after a
>> release, the tarball may disappear from
>> level up but chances of it being in archive are higher. So Let's not
>> change this URI, unless there is another
>> reason that I missed.
>
>
> I have to disagree actually! The reasons are:
> 1. Taking man-pages from archive means we are always shipping an out of date version, particularly if a tarball is archived months or years later than it was released.
> 2. Specifically here, the main folder has all man-page releases going back 1.5 years, which is longer than yocto release's support window. Meanwhile, the archive is missing several latest releases.
> 3. Even if a yocto release ships a version of man-pages that is then archived and removed from main folder, it is trivial and safe to backport an update from master. man-pages tarballs contain pre-built documentation and don't threaten release stability.
>
> If this becomes a real problem, we can also write to Michael Kerrisk and ask that he doesn't move tarballs around.

think about building a release after many years, if we do not have to
update SRC_URI to point to archive then its one less things to do
given that the same copies are in archive for current releases too
its just better for long term.

>
> Alex


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