Re: rt-tests release tarball location

[Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>]

On 2025-01-08 13:21:19 [-0500], John Kacur wrote:
> We've been doing this for 15+ years. Normally I would expect the package 
> creators to come-up with a work around and not expect the people offering 
> the packages to accomdate your packaging software.

This does not mean it does not deserve to be fixed once people complain.
Debian and Fedora download the source package and host it themself so
they don't rely on upstream's copy of it. Other, such as buildroot or
Gentoo or even yocto download it on every request.

> How many kernels back to you need to keep? Could we come up with a 
> compromise where we keep the newest kernel, plus say the last 3 in the 
> rt-tests directory before they get moved to the older directory?

What I am asking is to either please keep all rt-tests releases in
	https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/rt-tests/

but this would also mean that the older folder becomes removed and this
might upset more people.
Then there is the alternative especially if you prefer to have only the
latest release on top to please keep all releases in
	https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/rt-tests/older/

even the current one.  This does not sound annoying, does it? The latter
is what I do with RT patches while I release them after people
complained so I have the latest release in
	https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/projects/rt/$version/
and
	https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/projects/rt/$version/older/

> John

Sebastian