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

[Alexander Kanavin]

I never said they are modifying files in place, I think you misunderstood
me somehow. 'Archive' in this discussion is a folder on a server with
tarballs, not a tarball.

Maybe it's easier if I provide clickable links:
https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/man-pages/
https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/man-pages/Archive/

Alex

On Tue, 19 Nov 2019 at 19:08, Christopher Larson <kergoth at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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 ship an out of date version of manpages, and aren't aware (via version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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