[bitbake-devel] wanting to verify best way to set up a local source mirror

[Denys Dmytriyenko]

On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 09:18:56AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> 
>   we had a recent discussion on the yocto ML about this and i'd like
> to confirm the best way to define a local source mirror.
> 
>   currently, the bitbake manual (chapter 3), discusses how to set up
> something like that,
> 
> PREMIRRORS ?= "\
> bzr://.*/.*   http://somemirror.org/sources/ \n \
> cvs://.*/.*   http://somemirror.org/sources/ \n \
> git://.*/.*   http://somemirror.org/sources/ \n \
> hg://.*/.*    http://somemirror.org/sources/ \n \
> osc://.*/.*   http://somemirror.org/sources/ \n \
> p4://.*/.*    http://somemirror.org/sources/ \n \
> svk://.*/.*   http://somemirror.org/sources/ \n \
> svn://.*/.*   http://somemirror.org/sources/ \n"
> 
>   in my case, i have a directory of tarballs i've collected over the
> years that i want to take advantage of, and i was using this in my
> local.conf file:
> 
> PREMIRRORS_prepend = "\
> git://.*/.* file:///home/rpjday/dl/ \n \
> svn://.*/.* file:///home/rpjday/dl/ \n \
> cvs://.*/.* file:///home/rpjday/dl/ \n \
> ftp://.*/.* file:///home/rpjday/dl/ \n \
> http://.*/.* file:///home/rpjday/dl/ \n \
> https://.*/.* file:///home/rpjday/dl/ \n"
> 
> which was kind of tedious but it seemed to work fine.
> 
>   however, gary thomas suggested the following instead (which is way
> nicer):
> 
> SOURCE_MIRROR_URL ?= "file:///home/rpjday/dl/"
> INHERIT += "own-mirrors"
> BB_GENERATE_MIRROR_TARBALLS = "1"
> # BB_NO_NETWORK = "1"
> 
> which makes sense given this from meta/classes/own-mirrors.bbclass in
> oe-core:
> 
> REMIRRORS() {
> cvs://.*/.*     ${SOURCE_MIRROR_URL}
> svn://.*/.*     ${SOURCE_MIRROR_URL}
> git://.*/.*     ${SOURCE_MIRROR_URL}
> hg://.*/.*      ${SOURCE_MIRROR_URL}
> bzr://.*/.*     ${SOURCE_MIRROR_URL}
> svk://.*/.*     ${SOURCE_MIRROR_URL}
> p4://.*/.*      ${SOURCE_MIRROR_URL}
> osc://.*/.*     ${SOURCE_MIRROR_URL}
> https?$://.*/.* ${SOURCE_MIRROR_URL}
> ftp://.*/.*     ${SOURCE_MIRROR_URL}
> }
> 
> so i would think that the bitbake manual could be updated to refer to
> this cleaner solution, as long as it works the way i think it does.
> is there anything else that could be said about using the own-mirrors
> class that a reader might want to know?

You are confusing bibbake manual with metadata - bitbake doesn't come with 
own-mirrors class.

-- 
Denys