[OE-core] [RFC] DISTRO_MIRRORS / DISTRO_PREMIRRORS

[Khem Raj]

On 06/15/2011 09:11 AM, Mark Hatle wrote:
> 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.
>

yeah thats why mirror.openembedded.org usually contains the sources that 
are not found anywhere.


> --Mark
>
>> --
>>       Sau!
>>
>> Saul Wold
>> Yocto Component Wrangler @ Intel
>> Yocto Project / Poky Build System
>>
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