Re: rt-tests release tarball location

[John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>]

On Tue, 7 Jan 2025, Kurt Kanzenbach wrote:

> On Sat Dec 28 2024, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am one of the co-maintainers of Buildroot, an embedded Linux build
> > system. Among many other packages, we obviously have rt-tests as one of
> > our packages. When rt-tests is built, we download it from kernel.org.
> > Unfortunately, the rt-tests tarballs are moved around: the latest
> > release is available at https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/rt-tests/,
> > but as soon as another newer release is available, the older release
> > tarballs get moved to
> > https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/rt-tests/older/.
> >
> > This breaks the build for build systems such as Buildroot, that expect
> > a release tarball to stay at a given location, and not being moved
> > around.
> >
> > Would it possible to keep the tarballs at the same location? Either by
> > not having the older/ folder entirely, or by populating it immediately
> > with the latest release, so that all releases are always available from
> > the older/ folder?
> 
> +1
> 
> For Gentoo I had to add both URLs to SRC_URI in the ebuilds. It first
> tries rt-tests/ and then rt-tests/older/ location, which is also not
> ideal.

Why is it not ideal? This seems like a perfectly reasonable solution?

John