mc: broken source link

mc: broken source link

[Livius]

Hi,

Source link of Midnight Commander is broken since long time.

https://layers.openembedded.org/layerindex/recipe/5603/
http://www.midnight-commander.org/downloads/mc-4.8.31.tar.bz2

Re: [OE-core] mc: broken source link

[Ross Burton]

On 26 Jun 2024, at 22:45, Livius via lists.openembedded.org <egyszeregy=freemail.hu@lists.openembedded.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Source link of Midnight Commander is broken since long time.
> 
> https://layers.openembedded.org/layerindex/recipe/5603/
> http://www.midnight-commander.org/downloads/mc-4.8.31.tar.bz2

Would you be able to send a quick patch to fix the SRC_URI?

Ross

Re: mc: broken source link

[Livius]

I do not have any information about what is the new URL for download tar.bz2 sources.

Re: [OE-core] mc: broken source link

[Fabio Estevam]

On Thu, Jun 27, 2024 at 8:10 PM Livius via lists.openembedded.org
<egyszeregy=freemail.hu@lists.openembedded.org> wrote:
>
> I do not have any information about what is the new URL for download tar.bz2 sources.

What about fetching it from git?
 https://github.com/MidnightCommander/mc.git

Re: mc: broken source link

[Livius]

As i see there is a new download link in website of https://midnight-commander.org.
http://ftp.midnight-commander.org

But my opinion, to use GitHub zip or tar.gz files from TAGs is more better for long-term.
https://github.com/MidnightCommander/mc/releases/tag/4.8.31

Re: [OE-core] mc: broken source link

[Alexander Kanavin]

What kind of 'broken' are you seeing? I just issued 'wget
http://www.midnight-commander.org/downloads/mc-4.8.31.tar.bz2' and it
proceeded without issues to completion.

Github archives are auto-generated and unstable. There is a qa check
in insane.bbclass that prevents them from being used.

Alex

On Sun, 30 Jun 2024 at 13:36, Livius via lists.openembedded.org
<egyszeregy=freemail.hu@lists.openembedded.org> wrote:
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> As i see there is a new download link in website of https://midnight-commander.org.
> http://ftp.midnight-commander.org
>
> But my opinion, to use GitHub zip or tar.gz files from TAGs is more better for long-term.
> https://github.com/MidnightCommander/mc/releases/tag/4.8.31
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Re: mc: broken source link

[Livius]

In last weeks source URL was broken for mc. Now, it is forwarded for a new link, only.

http://www.midnight-commander.org/downloads/mc-4.8.31.tar.bz2
forwarded to:
http://ftp.midnight-commander.org/mc-4.8.31.tar.bz2

So it seems to me, mc has a new home for sources.
http://ftp.midnight-commander.org

By the way my experience is that GitHub source links of Releases/Tags are more stable to get them any of time in 24/7. GitHub.com's Bandwidth and accessibility/availability is very well. So why you said they are unstable? There are many recipes which uses GitHub source links for tar.gz files.

Re: [OE-core] mc: broken source link

[Alexander Kanavin]

On Tue, 2 Jul 2024 at 23:28, Livius via lists.openembedded.org
<egyszeregy=freemail.hu@lists.openembedded.org> wrote:
> By the way my experience is that GitHub source links of Releases/Tags are more stable to get them any of time in 24/7. GitHub.com's Bandwidth and accessibility/availability is very well. So why you said they are unstable? There are many recipes which uses GitHub source links for tar.gz files.
>

There are two kinds of github archives, manually created and uploaded
release artefacts (those are stable), and automatically generated tag
archives (those are not). What you see at
https://github.com/MidnightCommander/mc/releases/tag/4.8.31 are the
latter kind.

Alex

Re: [OE-core] mc: broken source link

[Alexander Kanavin]

On Wed, 3 Jul 2024 at 11:45, Alexander Kanavin via
lists.openembedded.org <alex.kanavin=gmail.com@lists.openembedded.org>
wrote:
> There are two kinds of github archives, manually created and uploaded
> release artefacts (those are stable), and automatically generated tag
> archives (those are not). What you see at
> https://github.com/MidnightCommander/mc/releases/tag/4.8.31 are the
> latter kind.

By 'unstable' I mean that their checksums can change randomly as
github re-generates them with different compressor settings etc.

There was a LWN article on the subject:
https://lwn.net/Articles/921787/ - we weren't hit by the issue
precisely because we don't use them, and have a qa test that prevents
their accidental introduction.

Alex