Re: rt-tests release tarball location

[Kurt Kanzenbach <kurt@linutronix.de>]

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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.

Thanks,
Kurt

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