[bitbake-devel] [PATCH] fetch2: Add BB_TRUSTED_NETWORK support

[Bernhard Reutner-Fischer]

On April 15, 2015 9:37:38 PM GMT+02:00, Christopher Larson <clarson at kergoth.com> wrote:
>On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 11:39 AM, Liam R. Howlett <
>Liam.Howlett at windriver.com> wrote:
>
>> This patch adds support for a new local.conf variable called
>> BB_TRUSTED_NETWORK.  BB_TRUSTED_NETWORK holds a list of hostnames
>that the
>> user
>> trusts as a source for downloading content.  If network access is
>enabled
>> and
>> the user has configured trusted hosts, then any hosts that are not in
>the
>> list
>> will cause an error to occur at fetch.  Any mirrors and pre-mirrors
>that
>> are
>> not in the list will result in warnings that these locations will not
>be
>> used.
>>
>> The BB_NO_NETWORK variable still stops all network access.
>>
>> Please see the comments in the patch for more details and example
>usage.
>>
>
>Hmm, looks like this might be useful with an internal mirror coupled
>with
>PREMIRRORS, so fetches from the internal host are allowed, but anything
>missing from there would be immediately caught?

That was my thought, too.
I would find BB_ALLOWED_NETWORKS more intuitive though.

Cheers,