[OE-core] [PATCH 0/1] Import own-mirrors class from OE

[Gary Thomas]

On 03/13/2011 10:13 AM, Koen Kooi wrote:
>
> Op 13 mrt 2011, om 16:56 heeft Gary Thomas het volgende geschreven:
>
>> On 03/12/2011 08:04 AM, Khem Raj wrote:
>>> Hi Richard
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Pull URL: git://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core-contrib.git
>>>    Branch: kraj/own-mirror
>>>    Browse: http://git.openembedded.org/cgit.cgi/openembedded-core-contrib/log/?h=kraj/own-mirror
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>      Khem Raj<raj.khem at gmail.com>
>>> ---
>>>
>>>
>>> Khem Raj (1):
>>>    own-mirrors.bbclass: Bring own-mirrors.bbclass from oe commit
>>>      0ef914b250df46a41348479446214575668943fb
>>>
>>>   meta/classes/own-mirrors.bbclass |   12 ++++++++++++
>>>   1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>>>   create mode 100644 meta/classes/own-mirrors.bbclass
>>>
>>
>> Poky/Yocto already has a mechanism for this by overriding PREMIRRORS
>> I would think sticking with one extension method would be better.
>>
>> Here's what I have in my [Poky] DISTRO.conf:
>>
>> SOURCE_DIR ?= "/opt/poky/sources"
>> PREMIRRORS = "\
>> http://.*/.*   file://${SOURCE_DIR}/ \n \
>> https://.*/.*  file://${SOURCE_DIR}/ \n \
>> ftp://.*/.*    file://${SOURCE_DIR}/ \n \
>> bzr://.*/.*    file://${SOURCE_DIR}/ \n \
>> cvs://.*/.*    file://${SOURCE_DIR}/ \n \
>> git://.*/.*    file://${SOURCE_DIR}/ \n \
>> hg://.*/.*     file://${SOURCE_DIR}/ \n \
>> osc://.*/.*    file://${SOURCE_DIR}/ \n \
>> p4://.*/.*     file://${SOURCE_DIR}/ \n \
>> svk://.*/.*    file://${SOURCE_DIR}/ \n \
>> svn://.*/.*    file://${SOURCE_DIR}/ \n"
>>
>> Users can have their own mirror by defining SOURCE_DIR in local.conf
>
> How is that easier and more maintainable than:
>
> INHERIT += "own-mirrors"
> SOURCE_MIRROR_URL = "/some/dir"
>
> ?
>
> Especially when more uri methods get added to the fetcher and oe-core.

Ask Richard?  I was just pointing out that Poky/Yocto already has a mechanism;
perhaps the OE one is better, who knows.

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