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

[Khem Raj]

On Tue, Nov 19, 2019 at 8:11 AM Alexander Kanavin <alex.kanavin at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Tue, 19 Nov 2019 at 16:51, Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>
> Building a release after many years without having a preserved local copy
> of DL_DIR is asking for trouble, regardless of whether man-pages comes from
> archive or not. Other things will have changed their location or vanished
> off the internet in the meantime, even though they supposedly come from
> 'stable' locations. But if you have a DL_DIR, then you don't need to fix
> the recipes at all.
>

Please look at the stable yocto releases in past and see how many patches
have been suggested or applied just to update src_uri

Usually new users start with stable releases a lot of times due to their
work asking them to or some other reason and they may not have all dl_dir
stuff
If I was asking you to store the tarball some place in arctic then I would
understand your concern but in this case I am not able to. can you describe
why using archive location is not suitable here perhaps that will help me


>
> Alex
>
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