From: Roland Hieber <r.hieber@pengutronix.de>
To: ptxdist@pengutronix.de
Subject: Re: [ptxdist] [PATCH] bzip2: fix URL (bzip.org archive gone, use Gentoo as mirror)
Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2018 10:20:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181004082007.tmccopa7hv3gyvrd@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1538432084-12347-1-git-send-email-apr@cn-eng.de>
On Tue, Oct 02, 2018 at 12:14:44AM +0200, Andreas Pretzsch wrote:
> As of 22 September 2018, bzip2 sources are not longer available
> on http://www.bzip.org/. They state "Find the latest version on
> SourceForge", just I cannot find it there. Only as part of some
> other projects, which would be unreliable.
LWN [1] mentions that the bzip.org domain had expired and was apparently
been grabbed by someone else, and remarks that even if there will be
official builds on that domain, they should be checked carefully now.
Another possible source would be the Debian Snapshots archive [2],
although the latest release seems to be 9 years old already.
[1]: https://lwn.net/Articles/762264/
[2]: https://snapshot.debian.org/package/bzip/0.21-3.1/
- Roland
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-10-01 22:14 Andreas Pretzsch
2018-10-02 9:29 ` Ian Abbott
2018-10-02 14:25 ` Bernhard Walle
2018-10-04 8:20 ` Roland Hieber [this message]
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