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

[Richard Purdie]

On Sun, 2011-03-13 at 11:50 -0700, 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.

There were various fixes/improvements to PREMIRRORS as part of the
fetch2 work which is perhaps where the confusion has come from. 

This mirror enhancement is tangential to that and the patch is fine, I
just merged it.

Cheers,

Richard