[bitbake-devel] [RFC] git: add BB_FETCH_PREMIRROR_READONLY option

[Paul Eggleton]

On Tuesday 30 April 2013 12:52:40 Martin Jansa wrote:
> * just RFC, because I haven't even tested this change,
>   use it only to describe the issue and discuss it
> 
> * remove symlink to ud.fullmirror when BB_FETCH_PREMIRROR_READONLY is set
> 
> * with read-only PREMIRROR (e.g. mounted over NFS or CIFS
>   and referenced as file:///mnt/premirror) we cannot use
>   BB_GENERATE_MIRROR_TARBALLS because all git2_abc.git.tar.gz
>   files later became just symlinks to read-only location in PREMIRROR
>   (it works fine on first build and for new components, because
>   at that time there isn't tarball on PREMIRROR yet).
> 
>   ERROR: Fetcher failure: Fetch command failed with exit code 141, output:
>   tar (child): /build/downloads/git2_abc.git.tar.gz: Cannot open: Read-only
> file system tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now
> 
> * maybe we can change the default behavior and always remove symlink
>   without introducing new option

Personally I think it would be better to do the latter.

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre