Re: [PATCH 07/10] mirrors: replace references to archive.apache.org

[Andre McCurdy <armccurdy@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 5:22 AM, Alexander Kanavin
<alexander.kanavin@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> On 12/22/2015 12:21 AM, Andre McCurdy wrote:
>>>
>>> -http://www.apache.org/dist  http://archive.apache.org/dist \n \
>>> +http://www.eu.apache.org/dist  http://www.us.apache.org/dist \n \
>>
>>
>> Is this change correct? Shouldn't mirrors.bbclass provide a fallback
>> to the historical releases URL (so that things keep working if the
>> oe-core version of an apache.org package is no longer a current
>> version) ?
>
> When I have checked, archive.apache.org did not have the latest releases of
> subversion, so it can't be relied on as a primary upstream source. On the
> other hand, primary mirrors only keep the latest releases, and remove
> anything else. So the right thing would be to first try to use those primary
> mirrors, and fall back to archive if those mirrors no longer have the
> version we need.

Yes, that's what I was getting at - there should be a fallback to the
archives since oe-core releases typically won't be using the latest
release versions. Your new patch looks good.

Checking subversion on http://archive.apache.org/dist today though,
the archive site does seem to have copies of the latest versions, so
not sure what was happening when you looked.

> This problem also shows up with debian upstream.
>
> Alex
>