[OE-core] [RFC PATCH 0/2] Sanity testing network connectivity

[Joshua Lock]

On Fri, 2011-06-17 at 20:04 -0700, Joshua Lock wrote:
> In response to a Yocto Bugzilla request[1] I've written a sanity test to check
> whether BitBake is able to fecth from http, https and git sources. The idea
> being that if the user is behing a proxy and this test fails we can more easily
> help them diagnose and fix their problem.
> 
> I've built on the existing infrastructure for less frequent sanity tests so
> whilst this test is reasonably heavy it will only run when TMPDIR changes
> (usually first run?). Further I added a variable to disable just this sanity
> check. People shipping offline installs to customers should just be able to
> set the variable in their shipped configuration and not worry about this
> sanity check irritating people.
> 
> The error message points to a wiki page[2] which is pretty vanilla right now
> but the intention would be to flesh it out with guidance on common proxy/nat/etc
> issues.

I cunningly forgot the url's I referenced. Friday evening, sorry.

1. http://bugzilla.pokylinux.org/show_bug.cgi?id=933
2. https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Connectivity_Troubleshooting

Joshua
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Joshua Lock
        Yocto Build System Monkey
        Intel Open Source Technology Centre