Re: [ptxdist] [PATCH] libcap-ng: Add another fetch option.

[Roland Hieber <rhi@pengutronix.de>]

On Mon, Aug 28, 2023 at 05:35:51PM +0200, Michael Olbrich wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 11, 2023 at 07:38:59PM +0200, Christian Melki wrote:
> > people.redhat.com is down again.
> > Not a lot depend on it but libcap-ng is common in a lot of builds.
> > The github variant doesn't come in a "make dist" release.
> > A debian mirror of the source might do.
> 
> The problem with the Debian pool is, that it only contains the archives for
> the releases currently available in a Debian release. So the archive may
> disappear. And as a secondary URL, 'ptxdist urlcheck' will not fail while
> the primary URL is available.

Another option is to use the pool URLs from snapshot.debian.org, see for
example rules/lsof.make:

  https://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20190908T172415Z/pool/main/l/lsof/$(LSOF_TARBALL)

(I think the timestamp in the URL can just be any valid timestamp.)

 - Roland

> The server seems to be back now anyway. So I'd like to stick to just the
> original URL for now. I'll reconsider if this happens more often, but it
> doesn't look like it so far from what I can tell from my regular checks.
> 
> Michael
> 
> > Signed-off-by: Christian Melki <christian.melki@t2data.com>
> > ---
> >  rules/libcap-ng.make | 4 +++-
> >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/rules/libcap-ng.make b/rules/libcap-ng.make
> > index 530af64ef..64786e872 100644
> > --- a/rules/libcap-ng.make
> > +++ b/rules/libcap-ng.make
> > @@ -18,7 +18,9 @@ LIBCAP_NG_VERSION	:= 0.8.3
> >  LIBCAP_NG_MD5		:= cdfc750af32f681293e43c5c1bd427c8
> >  LIBCAP_NG		:= libcap-ng-$(LIBCAP_NG_VERSION)
> >  LIBCAP_NG_SUFFIX	:= tar.gz
> > -LIBCAP_NG_URL		:= http://people.redhat.com/sgrubb/libcap-ng/$(LIBCAP_NG).$(LIBCAP_NG_SUFFIX)
> > +LIBCAP_NG_URL		:= \
> > +	https://people.redhat.com/sgrubb/libcap-ng/$(LIBCAP_NG).$(LIBCAP_NG_SUFFIX) \
> > +	https://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/libc/libcap-ng/libcap-ng_$(LIBCAP_NG_VERSION).orig.$(LIBCAP_NG_SUFFIX)
> >  LIBCAP_NG_SOURCE	:= $(SRCDIR)/$(LIBCAP_NG).$(LIBCAP_NG_SUFFIX)
> >  LIBCAP_NG_DIR		:= $(BUILDDIR)/$(LIBCAP_NG)
> >  LIBCAP_NG_LICENSE	:= LGPL-2.1-or-later AND GPL-2.0-or-later
> > -- 
> > 2.34.1
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
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