[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] Update github hashes

Peter Korsgaard peter at korsgaard.com
Thu Sep 21 07:23:46 UTC 2017


>>>>> "Bernd" == Bernd Kuhls <bernd.kuhls at t-online.de> writes:

Hi,

 > I do not see a perfect solution for this problem, the fallback to s.b.o. 
 > will not circumvent download failures because it does not provide source 
 > tarballs for all packages:

 > $ LC_ALL=C wget sources.buildroot.org/kodi-17.4-Krypton.tar.gz
 > --2017-09-20 20:23:27--  http://sources.buildroot.org/kodi-17.4-
 > Krypton.tar.gz
 > Resolving sources.buildroot.org (sources.buildroot.org)... 176.9.16.109
 > Connecting to sources.buildroot.org (sources.buildroot.org)|
 > 176.9.16.109|:80... connected.
 > HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
 > 2017-09-20 20:23:27 ERROR 404: Not Found.

 > Not committing this patch means that downloading the kodi package will 
 > always fail. Otoh I recognize the mess for the lts versions...

Odd that hasn't been downloaded yet, but kodi was only very recently
bumped (post-2017.08), so there's no problem fixing the hash there.

Can you send a patch only fixing the kodi hash?


 > Additionally not all users are using
 > BR2_BACKUP_SITE="http://sources.buildroot.net"
 > in their setup, I normally deactivate this option to save bandwidth and 
 > to be informed when upstream did changes to its website.

Save bandwidth? I can understand disabling the option for development
reasons, but this is exactly the reason why we are running the mirror in
the first place and I wouldn't recommend disabling the option for
"normal" users.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard



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