Re: php: museum.php.net is broken - change recipe SRC_URI?

[Martin Jansa <martin.jansa@gmail.com>]

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On Wed, Nov 05, 2014 at 01:32:08PM +0000, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> On Wednesday 05 November 2014 13:20:48 Bryan Evenson wrote:
> > There hasn't been any follow-up on this thread for a couple days.  I'd like
> > to know if there would be an acceptable solution for this issue.  I'd
> > propose changing the SRC_URI for php-5.4.14 to
> > http://git.php.net/?p=web/php-distributions.git;a=blob;f=php-5.4.14.tar.bz2
> > ;h=0d950f179d586bb1d0e879e0d4aa3a5140e8d5f5;hb=3dd2f12609fc8a730d7cf341a932f
> > 6c7b241f03c, which will directly pull only the tarball we need directly from
> > the PHP Git repository.  I believe it's the only path that would be
> > guaranteed to work long term.
> 
> Presumably if we did that we will need to keep updating the hash as well 
> though?
> 
> Looking at the bug there are at least two mirrors mentioned, although those 
> may not be reliable on a permanent basis there should be others (e.g. distros 
> often provide copies of the upstream sources they use). We could leave the 
> museum.php.net URL in place since it does appear it will eventually return, 
> and add MIRRORS values to cover the situation while it's unavailable.
> 
> Does this sound like a workable plan?

We can also send the archive to Tom King to put in in
http://sources.openembedded.org/
(like
http://lists.openembedded.org/pipermail/openembedded-devel/2014-June/096444.html)

We're not changing php version so often, so keeping the tarball there
won't cause so big maintenance burden.

-- 
Martin 'JaMa' Jansa     jabber: Martin.Jansa@gmail.com

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