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Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/10] mirrors: replace references to archive.apache.org
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On 12/22/2015 12:21 AM, Andre McCurdy wrote:
>> -http://www.apache.org/dist  http://archive.apache.org/dist \n \
>> +http://www.eu.apache.org/dist  http://www.us.apache.org/dist \n \
>
> Is this change correct? Shouldn't mirrors.bbclass provide a fallback
> to the historical releases URL (so that things keep working if the
> oe-core version of an apache.org package is no longer a current
> version) ?

When I have checked, archive.apache.org did not have the latest releases 
of subversion, so it can't be relied on as a primary upstream source. On 
the other hand, primary mirrors only keep the latest releases, and 
remove anything else. So the right thing would be to first try to use 
those primary mirrors, and fall back to archive if those mirrors no 
longer have the version we need.

This problem also shows up with debian upstream.

Alex