[ptxdist] Source for opkg, opkg-utils, downloadlinks are broken

[Andreas Helmcke <ahelmcke@ela-soft.com>]

Hello,

I have problems finding a working source for opkg-utils.

As far as I can tell git.yoctoproject.org killed off their snapshot functionality again. This time also for .tar.gz.

Trying to fetch snapshots result in 
  Unsupported snapshot format: opkg-utils-0.7.0.tar.gz

For opkg tarballs still can be found at: 
  https://downloads.yoctoproject.org/releases/opkg/ 
so opkg.make can be fixed by changing the download url.

Unfortunately, this doesn't work for opkg-utils, since there are no tarballs for opkg-utils at https://downloads.yoctoproject.org/releases/.

I tried to switch to git but I do not know how to get it working with opkg-utils.

The easy way with 
 HOST_OPKG_UTILS_URL := https://git.yoctoproject.org/opkg-utils;tag=$(HOST_OPKG_UTILS_VERSION)

doesn't work, because ptdist doesn't recognize that it's an URL to a Git repository because it does not end with .git.

>From https://ptxdist.de/doc/ref_make_variables.html:

<PKG>_URL
....
    Git URLs must either start with ‘git://’ or end with ‘.git’. They have a mandatory tag=<tagname> option.

What is the best way to solve the problem?


Andreas