[oe] Stable source repository

[Javi Roman]

On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 10:11 AM, Esben Haabendal <esbenhaabendal at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi
>
> For some reason, some OSS projects does not offer persistent access to
> old releases,
> which continously give problems for OE and other similar distributions.
>
> With the org.openembedded.stable branch, this problem is considerably
> worse.
> The usual fix in .dev is to upgrade the recipes to a current release,
> which of-course
> is not what we want for a stable branch.
>
> Take for example
> http://bugs.openembedded.net/show_bug.cgi?id=4227
>
> I think it is worth considering a permanent solution to this kind of
> problems.
> We should have a download server which carries all sources referred to
> by http and ftp URI's in org.openembedded.stable recipes.
> Why not setup ftp://downloads.openembedded.org/org.openmbedded.stable
> to mirror a copy of all sources referred to by current .stable recipes, and
> when a bug is filed with a missing source, the solution is simply to change
> the SRC_URI to use the ftp://downloads.openembedded.org URI instead.
>
> Of-course, unless continous manual labor is to be required, we need to
> write a script or something like that to maintain the mirror repository.
>
> And we need a server with enough storage and a big fat pipe to the
> Internet.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Best regards,
> Esben Haabendal
>
>
I was thinking to automatize the search for old software versions by means
of http://www.filewatcher.com/ or something similar. If the original SRC_URI
fails, then OE could automatically look for the source file with searching
engines.

Regards.

-- 
Javi Roman