[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/2] package/imagemagick: change download url to github

[Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>]

Hello,

On Tue, 20 Jun 2017 14:04:03 +0200, Peter Korsgaard wrote:

>  >> >  IMAGEMAGICK_VERSION = 7.0.5-10
>  >> > -IMAGEMAGICK_SOURCE = ImageMagick-$(IMAGEMAGICK_VERSION).tar.xz
>  >> > -IMAGEMAGICK_SITE = http://www.imagemagick.org/download/releases
>  >> > +IMAGEMAGICK_SOURCE = $(IMAGEMAGICK_VERSION).tar.gz
>  >> > +IMAGEMAGICK_SITE = https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/archive    
>  >> 
>  >> That SOURCE name is a bit annoying. Is it a big issue that upstream
>  >> (re)moves the downloads after some time when we transparently fall back
>  >> to getting it from sources.buildroot.org?  
> 
>  > I indeed hadn't seen the stupid name for the tarball. On my side, I
>  > find it a bit annoying that we have to rely on sources.b.o to make
>  > things work, so having upstream location that are working on the long
>  > run is much better when possible. But I agree that the tarball name is
>  > really silly here, and the risk of conflict with other packages is real.  
> 
> That is exactly my concern. So what do we do? Leave it like this so
> s.b.o isn't needed or revert to get back a sane tarball name?
> 
> There's pro/cons to both, but I think I would prefer to revert.

Perhaps we could revert *and* talk to the upstream developers and ask
them to keep the tarballs at the same place, instead of (re)moving
them ?

Thanks,

Thomas
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