[Buildroot] Release tarballs location

[Buildroot] Release tarballs location

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Hello,

I am a contributor of Buildroot, a tool that allows to easily build
embedded Linux systems. We create recipes to cross-compile software
that are useful on embedded systems, and LVM2 is one of them.

Unfortunately, it looks like when a release is made, the tarball is
placed at ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/lvm2/, but as once as a newer
release is made, the previous tarball is moved into
ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/lvm2/old/. Unfortunately, this doesn't
work well with how embedded Linux build systems work, since they code
an URL and a version for each software they build. This is usually not
a problem, since most of the software tarballs are available from a
fixed location.

Would it be possible to change the release tarball location policy in
order not to move them ? If you really want to have only the latest one
in ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/lvm2/, could you also put the latest
available version in ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/lvm2/old/ at the
moment of the release ?

Thank you very much!

Thomas
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Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux
development, consulting, training and support.
http://free-electrons.com

[Buildroot] Release tarballs location

[Robert Schwebel]

Hello,

On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 02:49:01PM +0100, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> I am a contributor of Buildroot, a tool that allows to easily build
> embedded Linux systems. We create recipes to cross-compile software
> that are useful on embedded systems, and LVM2 is one of them.
>
> Unfortunately, it looks like when a release is made, the tarball is
> placed at ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/lvm2/, but as once as a newer
> release is made, the previous tarball is moved into
> ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/lvm2/old/. Unfortunately, this doesn't
> work well with how embedded Linux build systems work, since they code
> an URL and a version for each software they build. This is usually not
> a problem, since most of the software tarballs are available from a
> fixed location.
>
> Would it be possible to change the release tarball location policy in
> order not to move them ? If you really want to have only the latest one
> in ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/lvm2/, could you also put the latest
> available version in ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/lvm2/old/ at the
> moment of the release ?

I second Thomas' position - we have the same problem in PTXdist as well.

Robert
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[Buildroot] [lvm-devel] Release tarballs location

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Hello Alasdair,

On Tue, 4 Jan 2011 14:49:01 +0000
Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> wrote:

> OK - I've renamed 'old' to 'releases', put everything in there,
> symlinked 'old' to it, and from now on will put new releases
> in there immediately.

Awesome, thanks!

Regards,

Thomas
-- 
Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons
Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux
development, consulting, training and support.
http://free-electrons.com