On Sat Dec 28 2024, Thomas Petazzoni wrote: > Hello, > > I am one of the co-maintainers of Buildroot, an embedded Linux build > system. Among many other packages, we obviously have rt-tests as one of > our packages. When rt-tests is built, we download it from kernel.org. > Unfortunately, the rt-tests tarballs are moved around: the latest > release is available at https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/rt-tests/, > but as soon as another newer release is available, the older release > tarballs get moved to > https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/rt-tests/older/. > > This breaks the build for build systems such as Buildroot, that expect > a release tarball to stay at a given location, and not being moved > around. > > Would it possible to keep the tarballs at the same location? Either by > not having the older/ folder entirely, or by populating it immediately > with the latest release, so that all releases are always available from > the older/ folder? +1 For Gentoo I had to add both URLs to SRC_URI in the ebuilds. It first tries rt-tests/ and then rt-tests/older/ location, which is also not ideal. Thanks, Kurt
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