[oe] php: museum.php.net is broken - change recipe SRC_URI?

[Bryan Evenson]

Zoltan,

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> [mailto:openembedded-devel-bounces at lists.openembedded.org] On
> Behalf Of Boszormenyi Zoltan
> Sent: Monday, November 03, 2014 1:03 PM
> To: openembedded-devel at lists.openembedded.org; Paul Eggleton
> Cc: koen at dominion.thruhere.net
> Subject: Re: [oe] php: museum.php.net is broken - change recipe SRC_URI?
> 
> 2014-11-03 17:08 keltezéssel, Bryan Evenson írta:
> > Paul,
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Paul Eggleton [mailto:paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com]
> >> Sent: Monday, November 03, 2014 10:46 AM
> >> To: Bryan Evenson
> >> Cc: Martin Jansa; koen at dominion.thruhere.net; openembedded-
> >> devel at lists.openembedded.org
> >> Subject: Re: [oe] php: museum.php.net is broken - change recipe
> SRC_URI?
> >>
> >> Hi Bryan,
> >>
> >> On Monday 03 November 2014 14:03:42 Bryan Evenson wrote:
> >>> The official PHP archival version download site,
> >>> http://museum.php.net, has been down at least since the beginning of
> >>> October.  This is a problem for daisy and older branches if a build
> >>> attempts to fetch PHP.  I expect this site will be back up again
> >>> sometime, but from reading the conversation on the related PHP bug
> >>> report (https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=68130) I do not believe
> >>> http://museum.php.net can be viewed to be a reliable archive in the
> >>> future.  I see that dizzy changed the SRC_URI to use
> >>> http://www.php.net/distributions for the main download.  I did some
> >>> testing and it appears that PHP versions that are about a year old
> >>> or less are available from http://www.php.net/distributions.  So we
> >>> can assume that a year from now the dizzy branch SRC_URI will need
> >>> to change
> >> to something else.
> >>> I'd propose changing the SRC_URI to something that will not change
> >>> over time.  My suggestion would be the PHP distributions Git
> >>> repository located
> >>> here: http://git.php.net/?p=web/php-distributions.git;a=summary.
> >>> This is the path suggested in the related PHP bug mentioned earlier.
> >>> The disadvantage is that the SRC_URI would refer to a file on a
> >>> specific tag, so the SRC_URI would be specific for each PHP version.
> >>>
> >>> Any further suggestions on how to handle this?  If the SRC_URI does
> >>> get updated, how many branches back should the change be made?
> >> So we do have mirrors that can help with this, unfortunately with the
> >> OE mirror (as opposed to the Yocto Project one), its population is
> >> not automatic, so you have to request that new archives get added.
> >> I'm not sure it would be practical to change this either.
> >>
> >> Why php thinks it's a good idea to distribute these tarballs in a
> >> single place in a git repository but not in a simple flat HTTP location is a bit
> beyond me.
> >> Fetching directly from git in this situation wouldn't be ideal as
> >> it'll end up effectively fetching all of the binaries down when
> >> cloning the repo; however I guess you could download a single file with:
> >>
> >> SRC_URI =
> >> "http://git.php.net/?p=web/php-distributions.git;a=blob;f=php-
> >> ${PV}.tar.xz"
> > Not exactly.  It looks like the old versions that are no longer supported get
> deleted from php-distributions.git, so HEAD doesn't have knowledge of all
> PHP versions.  For example, this link: http://git.php.net/?p=web/php-
> distributions.git;a=blob;f=php-5.4.22.tar.bz2 as of today will download php-
> 5.4.22.  But this link: http://git.php.net/?p=web/php-
> distributions.git;a=blob;f=php-5.4.21.tar.bz2 just reports that it cannot find
> the file.
> >
> > As far as fetching php-5.4.14 (version used for daisy and older) I think this
> URL will work: http://git.php.net/?p=web/php-
> distributions.git;a=blob;f=php-
> 5.4.14.tar.bz2;h=0d950f179d586bb1d0e879e0d4aa3a5140e8d5f5;hb=3dd2f12
> 609fc8a730d7cf341a932f6c7b241f03c.  Ugly, but it works.
> 
> What's wrong with this?
> 
> SRC_URI =
> "http://php.net/get/php-
> ${PV}.tar.bz2/from/this/mirror;downloadfilename=php-${PV}.tar.bz2"

First, I can't get this SRC_URI to work with the "downloadfilename" addition to the SRC_URI.  I can get php-5.4.33 from http://php.net/get/php-5.4.33.tar.bz2/from/this/mirror.  However, this location has the same problem as the SRC_URI on the dizzy branch; PHP versions that are older than a year are no longer available on the php.net mirrors.  Not a problem (yet) for dizzy or master branches as these branches are using a more recent version of PHP.  For daisy and older branches that are using 5.4.14, this SRC_URI does not work.

Regards,
Bryan