[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] ca-certificates: new package

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Tue Jan 28 21:07:59 UTC 2014


Dear Baruch Siach,

On Wed, 8 Jan 2014 06:52:07 +0200, Baruch Siach wrote:

> > +CA_CERTIFICATES_VERSION = 20130906
> > +CA_CERTIFICATES_SOURCE = ca-certificates_$(CA_CERTIFICATES_VERSION).tar.gz
> > +CA_CERTIFICATES_SITE = ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/c/ca-certificates
> 
> Please use $(BR2_DEBIAN_MIRROR). See package/at/at.mk, for example.

No. We don't want to use BR2_DEBIAN_MIRROR. This should be removed.

The problem with normal Debian mirrors is that files disappear after
some time (when Debian packages are updated). Instead, we should use
snapshot.debian.net everywhere.

Thomas
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