+John, +Clark On 2025-01-07 10:41:37 [+0100], Kurt Kanzenbach wrote: > 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? John, any favorites? > +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 Sebastian
