Re: Uncommon source deployment policy of live555

[Steffen Sledz <sledz@dresearch-fe.de>]

On 06.12.2011 08:07, Steffen Sledz wrote:
> On 26.11.2011 06:49, Khem Raj wrote:
>> On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 3:29 AM, Steffen Sledz <sledz@dresearch-fe.de> wrote:
>>> On 25.11.2011 12:21, Koen Kooi wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Op 25 nov. 2011, om 12:05 heeft Steffen Sledz het volgende geschreven:
>>>>
>>>>> The LIVE555 project has a really uncommon source deployment policy. :(
>>>>>
>>>>> They publish *only* the latest tarball of their code [1]. And they don't make the code available under a source code repository [2].
>>>>>
>>>>> I've asked to change this policy but they are not willing to do that [3].
>>>>>
>>>>> How can we handle this?
>>>>> Does OE provides a "mirror" server to provide the versions we're referencing?
>>>>
>>>> Angstrom has had such a mirror ever since it started and it has the following live555 releases:
>>>
>>> Great.
>>>
>>> So there's no need to change the recipes. This server is used automatically. Right?
>>>
>>
>> for angstrom yes the mirror is a fallback
>>
>>
>>>> live.2009.06.02.tar.gz
>>>> live.2010.04.09.tar.gz
>>>> live.2010.05.29.tar.gz
>>>> live.2010.10.15.tar.gz
>>>> live.2011.01.10.tar.gz
>>>> live.2011.03.14.tar.gz
>>>
>>> I'd like to see the current live.2011.11.20.tar.gz there too. Who's maintaining such requests?
>>
>> as another backup you can also put this up on
>> sources.openemebedded.org, send it to ka6sox
> 
> I did not get an answer from ka6sox to my upload request until now. Can anybody else make to upload to sources.openemebedded.org?

Ping!

There's a commit pending requiring this tarball. :(

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