[OE-core] [RFC] DISTRO_MIRRORS / DISTRO_PREMIRRORS

[Mark Hatle]

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
> 
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