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

Christopher Larson kergoth at gmail.com
Tue Nov 19 18:08:19 UTC 2019


The whole point of having PV in the filename is ensuring it won’t change out from under us. If they’re modifying files in place that’s going to cause us headaches whether we pull from archive or not due to checksum changes.
On Nov 19, 2019, 9:46 AM -0700, Alexander Kanavin <alex.kanavin at gmail.com>, wrote:
> > On Tue, 19 Nov 2019 at 17:38, Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > 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
> >
> > The archive location is missing several latest releases of man-pages, which are only available from the main location. Which means that we always ship an out of date version of manpages, and aren't aware (via version check tooling) that later versions exist.
> >
> > Alex
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