From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2015 15:10:44 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [autobuild.buildroot.net] Build results for 2015-07-19 In-Reply-To: References: <20150720063017.2400B101C74@stock.ovh.net> <20150720124408.GM13027@tarshish> Message-ID: <20150720151044.1b5cd445@free-electrons.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Dear Brendan Heading, On Mon, 20 Jul 2015 13:49:14 +0100, Brendan Heading wrote: > I noticed there are around 200 packages that download from sourceforge. I > didn't do an exhaustive investigation but noticed that zlib is fetched from > there. Might it be better to fetch this (and other packages) from their > authoritative site, where one exists ? (in zlib's case, > http://zlib.net/zlib-1.2.8.tar.gz ?) > > [sourceforge has been in the news for other reasons lately .. I get the > general feeling that it is a resource that is not long for this world .. ] Yes, generally speaking identifying all our packages that are still hosted on SourceForge or Google Code, and finding if there is an alternate download location would be very good. Patches going in this direction are welcome. However, beware that the new location should be somewhat "official": we don't want to use some random Github fork as a replacement for a Sourceforge / Google Code download. Thanks! Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com