[oe] [meta-webserver][PATCH] apache2: the download has been moved to the 'archives'

[Martin Jansa]

Your original change was already supersedded by the upgrade sent by someone
else.

On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 4:56 PM, M. Asselstine <asselsm at mcmaster.ca> wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 10:51 AM, Mark Hatle <mark.hatle at windriver.com>
> wrote:
> > On 12/21/16 4:26 PM, Christopher Larson wrote:
> >> On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 2:53 PM, Mark Asselstine <
> >> mark.asselstine at windriver.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> This release of apache2 is no longer found in the main downloads area
> >>> but has been moved to the 'archives'. We should uprev apache2 but for
> >>> now this will at least get the builds working again.
> >>>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Mark Asselstine <mark.asselstine at windriver.com>
> >>>
> >>
> >> Wouldn’t it make sense to do a recipe-local addition to MIRRORS to
> >> automatically fall back to the apache archive?
> >>
> >
> > That seems wrong to me.  The recipe should point to the proper upstream
> location
> > for the archive.  If the archive moves, then the recipe should be
> updated to match.
> >
> > I know you can easily do local workarounds for mirrors and such, but I
> wouldn't
> > consider putting them into a recipe directly as a good approach as it
> will hide
> > problems from people and make it unclear where the official download
> location is.
> >
> > --Mark
>
> Agreed. I also think that the concept is a bad one as if our apache2
> recipe is so far behind that the upstream has moved it to archived
> that things should break just to give us a kick in the pants to get on
> top of things and complete and uprev. So rather than mess around to
> paper this over I hope my original change can be merged to allow
> builds to complete and I will look to getting a review out for an
> uprev after the holidays.
>
> MarkA
>
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