[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/2] package/imagemagick: change download url to github

Peter Korsgaard peter at korsgaard.com
Tue Jun 20 12:04:03 UTC 2017


>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> writes:

 > Hello,
 > On Sun, 18 Jun 2017 21:13:54 +0200, Peter Korsgaard wrote:

 >> >  IMAGEMAGICK_VERSION = 7.0.5-10
 >> > -IMAGEMAGICK_SOURCE = ImageMagick-$(IMAGEMAGICK_VERSION).tar.xz
 >> > -IMAGEMAGICK_SITE = http://www.imagemagick.org/download/releases
 >> > +IMAGEMAGICK_SOURCE = $(IMAGEMAGICK_VERSION).tar.gz
 >> > +IMAGEMAGICK_SITE = https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/archive  
 >> 
 >> That SOURCE name is a bit annoying. Is it a big issue that upstream
 >> (re)moves the downloads after some time when we transparently fall back
 >> to getting it from sources.buildroot.org?

 > I indeed hadn't seen the stupid name for the tarball. On my side, I
 > find it a bit annoying that we have to rely on sources.b.o to make
 > things work, so having upstream location that are working on the long
 > run is much better when possible. But I agree that the tarball name is
 > really silly here, and the risk of conflict with other packages is real.

That is exactly my concern. So what do we do? Leave it like this so
s.b.o isn't needed or revert to get back a sane tarball name?

There's pro/cons to both, but I think I would prefer to revert.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard


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