<div dir="ltr"><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>Maybe it's easier if I provide clickable links:</div><div><a href="https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/man-pages/">https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/man-pages/</a></div><div><a href="https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/man-pages/Archive/">https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/man-pages/Archive/</a></div><div><br></div><div>Alex<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 19 Nov 2019 at 19:08, Christopher Larson <<a href="mailto:kergoth@gmail.com">kergoth@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div dir="auto">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.</div>
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<div dir="auto">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<br></div>
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<div>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 Which means that we always ship an out of date version of manpages, and aren't aware (via version check tooling) that later versions exist.</div>
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