[Buildroot] [buildroot 0002564]: Inconsistent placement of "/gnu/" in GNU mirror path

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http://busybox.net/bugs/view.php?id=2564 
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Reported By:                mth
Assigned To:                buildroot
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Project:                    buildroot
Issue ID:                   2564
Category:                   Other
Reproducibility:            always
Severity:                   major
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     assigned
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Date Submitted:             03-13-2008 18:58 PDT
Last Modified:              03-13-2008 23:30 PDT
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Summary:                    Inconsistent placement of "/gnu/" in GNU mirror path
Description: 
An example download path of a GNU tool looks like this
"http://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/gnu/binutils/". The problem is that some packages
expect the "/gnu/" segment to be part of BR2_GNU_MIRROR, while other
packages expect the "/gnu/" segment to be part of the package-specific
download location. As a result, it is not possible to set BR2_GNU_MIRROR
in such a way that all GNU packages can be downloaded.

I grepped the source tree and the majority of packages expects "/gnu/" in
the package-specific download location. Therefore I changed the Makefiles
of the packages that expected "/gnu/" to be part of BR2_GNU_MIRROR. A
patch containing those changes is attached to this bug report.

If the opposite approach is desired ("/gnu/" in BR2_GNU_MIRROR), let me
know and I'll create a patch for that instead.

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 UlfSamuelsson - 03-13-08 23:30  
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I'd vote for having "/gnu/" included in BR2_GNU_MIRROR 

Issue History 
Date Modified   Username       Field                    Change               
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03-13-08 18:58  mth            New Issue                                    
03-13-08 18:58  mth            Status                   new => assigned     
03-13-08 18:58  mth            Assigned To               => buildroot       
03-13-08 18:58  mth            File Added: gnu-mirror-dir.diff                  
 
03-13-08 23:30  UlfSamuelsson  Note Added: 0005734                          
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