From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2017 14:02:53 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] pcre: Change download location In-Reply-To: <87d1dtdzim.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> References: <5f582368-797e-10ad-1c19-a998496cabbf@ya.ru> <20170306212039.4134ccee@free-electrons.com> <87d1dtdzim.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> Message-ID: <20170307140253.60681b57@free-electrons.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hello, On Tue, 07 Mar 2017 13:47:45 +0100, Peter Korsgaard wrote: > I'm a bit confused about the description. To me it sounds like a local > firewall issue with ftp access instead, but OK - Others might have a > similar setup. If you look at Buildroot 2015.11, as point out in the commit log, it contains: PCRE_VERSION = 8.38 PCRE_SITE = ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programming/pcre However, the 8.38 version is no longer available at ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programming/pcre, the oldest available version from this site is 8.39. Hence, the fact that we have been using ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programming/pcre in older Buildroot versions means that these older versions are now "broken" and have to fallback on sources.buildroot.net. So, no: it's not a local issue due to a firewall. By using the https://ftp.pcre.org/pub/pcre/ location, which contains all previous versions, we increase our chances that 2017.02 will not be "broken" in 2 years. We could have also said that pcre.org looks a bit more official/upstream, and indeed https:// is better than ftp://. Best regards, Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering http://free-electrons.com