[yocto] which is the *official* yocto download page?

2012-12-25 Thread Robert P. J. Day

  the poky.ent file in the docs defines this:

!ENTITY YOCTO_DL_URL http://downloads.yoctoproject.org;

while elsewhere (but i don't remember where) this is described as the
downloads page:

https://www.yoctoproject.org/downloads

which does not take you to the same place.

  and just to add to the confusion, the current dev manual contains
(in section 2.2):

Tarball Extraction: If you are not going to contribute back into the
Yocto Project, you can simply download a Yocto Project release you
want from the website’s download page.

where the link is http://www.yoctoproject.org/download, which
redirects you here:

https://www.yoctoproject.org/download/yocto-project-13-poky-80

  so that's three different download pages so far.

rday

p.s.  IMHO, any reference to a generic download page should take you
to a single top-level download URL *under* which all downloads and
downloading info can be found.  it should *not* take you to a sub-page
of, say, poky tarballs, unless the link specifically *says* it's to
the download directory of poky tarballs.  i refer, of course, to that
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Re: [yocto] which is the *official* yocto download page?

2012-12-25 Thread Robert P. J. Day

  as one more data point to suggest that the URLs to yocto pages need
some kind of reorg, toward the bottom of section 2.2 in the dev
manual, one reads:

Tarball Extraction: You can download any released BSP tarball from
the same download site used to get the Yocto Project release.

  the link under download site is
http://www.yoctoproject.org/download which, again because of
redirection, takes you here:

https://www.yoctoproject.org/download/yocto-project-13-poky-80

which is definitely inappropriate since that has nothing to do with
BSPs.

  for a number of these things, there appear to be two types of URLs.
in the case of BSPs, there's both of:

https://www.yoctoproject.org/downloads/bsp
http://downloads.yoctoproject.org/releases/yocto/yocto-1.3/machines/

the latter obviously representing the earlier BSP download page before
the yocto web site had a total makeover.  the same can be said for the
tools download page -- which of these two is it?

https://www.yoctoproject.org/downloads/tools
http://downloads.yoctoproject.org/tools/

  just looking for consistency.

rday

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