[OE-core] [RFC] DISTRO_MIRRORS / DISTRO_PREMIRRORS

[Khem Raj]

On 06/15/2011 09:26 AM, Saul Wold wrote:
> On 06/15/2011 09:13 AM, Khem Raj wrote:
>> On 06/15/2011 09:05 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.
>>>
>>> diff --git a/meta/classes/mirrors.bbclass b/meta/classes/mirrors.bbclass
>>> index 2146087..a52c6d5 100644
>>> --- a/meta/classes/mirrors.bbclass
>>> +++ b/meta/classes/mirrors.bbclass
>>> @@ -1,4 +1,22 @@
>>> +DISTRO_PREMIRRORS ?= "\
>>> +bzr://.*/.* http://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/sources/ \n \
>>> +cvs://.*/.* http://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/sources/ \n \
>>> +git://.*/.* http://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/sources/ \n \
>>> +hg://.*/.* http://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/sources/ \n \
>>> +osc://.*/.* http://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/sources/ \n \
>>> +p4://.*/.* http://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/sources/ \n \
>>> +svk://.*/.* http://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/sources/ \n \
>>> +svn://.*/.* http://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/sources/ \n"
>>> +
>>> +PREMIRRORS += "${DISTRO_PREMIRRORS}"
>>> +
>>> +DISTRO_MIRRORS ?= "\
>>> +ftp://.*/.* http://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/sources/ \n \
>>> +http://.*/.* http://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/sources/ \n \
>>> +https://.*/.* http://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/sources/ \n"
>>> +
>>> MIRRORS += "\
>>> +${DISTRO_MIRRORS} \
>>> ${DEBIAN_MIRROR}/main http://snapshot.debian.net/archive/pool \n \
>>> ${DEBIAN_MIRROR} ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool \n \
>>> ${DEBIAN_MIRROR} ftp://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/pool \n \
>>>
>>> Thoughts, ACKs, NAKs??
>>>
>>
>> FWIW http://mirrors.openembedded.org/ also exists.
>>>
> How up to date is it and how is it maintained? Is it possible for this
> mirror site to fall behind oe-core?
>

oe.dev falls back to it by default and whenever there is a report of non 
existing tars they are put up there.

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