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

[Khem Raj]

please update manpages to latest (5.04) that will justify moving to
new location for SRC_URI


On Tue, Nov 19, 2019 at 10:21 AM Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Nov 19, 2019 at 10:14 AM Alexander Kanavin
> <alex.kanavin at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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/
> >
>
> I see that they are still carrying a release from 2013 in
> https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/man-pages/, I am hoping
> that they do keep the tarballs in this location for long enough. So
> it might not be such a bad thing to move to using it, I was thinking
> the cycle is smaller
>
> > 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 Which means that we always ship an out of date version of manpages, and aren't aware (via version check tooling) that later versions exist.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