[oe] cherokee wrong SRC_URI (was Dylan backports)

[Paul Eggleton]

On Thursday 07 November 2013 18:12:46 Javier Viguera wrote:
> On 07/11/13 17:45, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> > 2) Longer term the recipe should just be upgraded; last I checked we've
> > fallen quite far behind the current version. Javier, if you're relying on
> > Cherokee is that something you'd be prepared to do?
> 
> The problem is not the version, the problem is the main cherokee project
> uses those github autogenerated-from-tags tarballs. See:
> 
> <http://cherokee-project.com/downloads.html>
> 
> Some examples:
> 
> <https://github.com/cherokee/webserver/archive/v1.2.103.zip>
> ...
> <https://github.com/cherokee/webserver/archive/v1.2.98.zip>
> 
> And as far as i know in this case we cannot rely the checksums remain
> stable.

This is something that would be worth trying to communicate upstream - these 
tarballs are just not useful as a release mechanism. Help them to understand 
that and we help ourselves.

> Anyway at this moment I'm stuck on Dylan working on a BSP layer, so I
> don't have the time to play with other branches, sorry.

OK, no problem.
 
> My preference at this moment would be to integrate the patch from Eric
> with the German mirror (once fixed in version 3) in all the branches and
> at the same time keep a copy of the tarball in one of the yoctoproject
> source mirrors.

It'll be the OpenEmbedded mirror in this instance, but yes.

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre