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

[Koen Kooi]

Op 13 mrt 2011, om 23:18 heeft Gary Thomas het volgende geschreven:

> On 03/13/2011 12:50 PM, Chris Larson wrote:
>> On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 10:00 AM, Gary Thomas<gary at mlbassoc.com>  wrote:
>>> Ask Richard?  I was just pointing out that Poky/Yocto already has a
>>> mechanism;
>>> perhaps the OE one is better, who knows.
>> 
>> There seems to be some confusion here.  PREMIRRORS isn't a
>> "poky/yocto" mechanism.  It started in OE, and stills works just fine
>> there (it's implemented in bitbake).  own-mirrors is simply a
>> convenience to make premirrors manipulation easier for the user.  If
>> convenience and usability isn't a priority for poky/yocto, I'd be
>> curious to hear the reasoning.
> 
> Fair enough; I was merely commenting on how I had been told to handle this
> in Poky/Yocto.  If OE has a better way, perhaps it makes sense for it to
> be available in both OE-CORE and Poky/Yocto.

And next time please have a look at the actual patch posted before commenting on it. The patch does *exactly* what you are saying, namely overriding PREMIRRORS.