RFR: 8303691: Fedora based devkit build should load more packages from archive location

Wed Mar 8 22:24:13 UTC 2023

On Mon, 6 Mar 2023 20:28:22 GMT, Christoph Langer <clanger at openjdk.org> wrote:

> When building Fedora based Linux devkits, rpm packages are downloaded from locations at the Fedora project.
> The latest/active versions reside under https://dl.fedoraproject.org while older, archived versions live at https://archives.fedoraproject.org.
> 
> It seems more releases have been archived in the meanwhile, so e.g. a build based on Fedora 27, which is currently marked as default, would fail.
> 
> I suggest to add a variable `LATEST_ARCHIVED_OS_VERSION` in the make file that denotes the Fedora version up to which a download would be attempted from archives. For later releases, the download is done from dl.

May I have another review from a build group member please?

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/12888