[Buildroot] [PATCH] bzip2: change upstream site

Baruch Siach baruch at tkos.co.il
Mon Aug 13 04:05:58 UTC 2018


Hi Yann,

On Sun, Aug 12, 2018 at 11:33:45AM +0200, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> On 2018-08-10 07:24 +0300, Baruch Siach spake thusly:
> > The bzip.org website is down. Use the Buildroot backup download site.
> > Change the website link to a gitlab repo that mirrors the content of the
> > tarball.
> > 
> >   https://lwn.net/Articles/762264/
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Baruch Siach <baruch at tkos.co.il>
> > ---
> >  package/bzip2/Config.in | 2 +-
> >  package/bzip2/bzip2.mk  | 2 +-
> >  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/package/bzip2/Config.in b/package/bzip2/Config.in
> > index dbc82496df7e..89e4d5de9a03 100644
> > --- a/package/bzip2/Config.in
> > +++ b/package/bzip2/Config.in
> > @@ -6,4 +6,4 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_BZIP2
> >  	  available techniques, while being around twice as fast at
> >  	  compression and six times faster at decompression.
> >  
> > -	  http://www.bzip.org
> > +	  https://gitlab.com/bzip/bzip2
> 
> Not sure this is the best upstream location. The LWN thread also has
> this comment https://lwn.net/Articles/762340/ which points to this
> webpage https://sourceware.org/bzip2 which has a canonical locations
> pointing to https://www.sourceware.org/bzip2/
> 
> So, I am not sure which is better: an out-dated (but soon to be revived)
> webpage, or a git tree made by a random guy on a random forge (there are
> also github trees as well, and no doubt we can also find more random git
> trees elesewhere).

In my opinion, the best option at this point is to drop this link entirely. We 
can always put it back when "real" upstream reappears.

What do you think?

baruch

> > diff --git a/package/bzip2/bzip2.mk b/package/bzip2/bzip2.mk
> > index e43533072b2d..a3af32299370 100644
> > --- a/package/bzip2/bzip2.mk
> > +++ b/package/bzip2/bzip2.mk
> > @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
> >  ################################################################################
> >  
> >  BZIP2_VERSION = 1.0.6
> > -BZIP2_SITE = http://www.bzip.org/$(BZIP2_VERSION)
> > +BZIP2_SITE = http://sources.buildroot.net
> >  BZIP2_INSTALL_STAGING = YES
> >  BZIP2_LICENSE = bzip2 license
> >  BZIP2_LICENSE_FILES = LICENSE

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