Re: [meta-java] unversioned source files

[Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>]

On 01/21/2016 10:41 AM, Henning Heinold wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 09:08:35AM +0000, Huang, Jie (Jackie) wrote:
>>
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
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>>> bounces@lists.openembedded.org] On Behalf Of Gary Thomas
>>> Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2016 1:51 PM
>>> To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org
>>> Subject: [oe] [meta-java] unversioned source files
>>>
>>> I just built the latest openjdk-7 and noticed that there are
>>> a number of source files downloaded that have no version
>>> information:
>>>     sources/corba.tar.bz2
>>>     sources/hotspot.tar.bz2
>>>     sources/jaxp.tar.bz2
>>>     sources/jaxws.tar.bz2
>>>     sources/jdk.tar.bz2
>>>     sources/langtools.tar.bz2
>>>     sources/openjdk.tar.bz2
>>
>> The original download file doesn' t have version in the name:
>> http://icedtea.wildebeest.org/download/drops/icedtea7/2.7.0/corba.tar.bz2
>>
>>>
>>> This seems very problematic to me - how is this expected to work,
>>> especially when there are changes?
>>
>> Yeah, there is potential issue, we should fix it by using "downloadfilename"
>> in SRC_URI to rename those files.
>>
>
> Okay,
>
> but when we copy them into the buildir we must use the old name, because
> icedtea/openjdk configure script checks for them and will download them itself if not found.
>
>> Thanks,
>> Jackie
>
> Bye Henning
>

Thinking about it, I'm not sure even these changes will really
help, especially for local mirrors.

Hasn't this topic ever been discussed with the upstream?  It would
seem very important!

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