On 6/15/11 11:05 AM, Saul Wold wrote: > > Folks, > > Recently we have seen a number of fetch failures, due to upstream sites > being down or deprecated (tinylogin, pscmic and others). > > The issue is that oe-core as a non-distro does not have a default set of > mirrors, which causes the fetcher to fail as there is no fall-back > mirror to distrubte the source code. > > As has been pointed out, different projects and distributions (Yocto > Project and Angstrom) both have upstream source mirrors which could be > used. Currently the Yocto Project defines it's MIRRORS and PREMIRRORS in > meta-yocto/conf/distro/poky.conf. > > I propose that we add a list of DISTO_MIRRORS and DISTRO_PREMIRRORS with > default settings pointing to the current autobuilder.yoctoproject.org > source site. These would be added to the mirrors.bbclass, so that > oe-core will have a default set of mirrors that can be overridden by a > distro or layer. >
... > > Thoughts, ACKs, NAKs?? The only concern I have is that we may miss when an upstream source location changes, thus not fixing a recipe when a package moves, disappears and otherwise can't be downloaded. --Mark > -- > Sau! > > Saul Wold > Yocto Component Wrangler @ Intel > Yocto Project / Poky Build System > > > _______________________________________________ > Openembedded-core mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
