[OE-core] Fetch failure for source at kernel.org

[Koen Kooi]

Op 21 sep. 2011, om 21:43 heeft Mark Hatle het volgende geschreven:

> On 9/21/11 2:38 PM, Philip Balister wrote:
>> I'm finally trying to get started with oe-core. I'm using a setup 
>> created with the setup-script created by Koen. Everything looks ok until 
>> it tried to build cpufrequtils. The recipe tries to fetch the source 
>> from a git repo at kernel.org. Obviously, the fetch fails.
>> 
>> What is odd, in the "good old days" I would expect this config to fall 
>> back and use the Angstrom source mirror, but apparently this is not the 
>> case with oe-core.
>> 
>> Is this a bug or a feature? If this is a bug, is there a plan to fix it? 
>> If it is a feature, how are we supposed to do builds if servers go away? 
>> What do we do about GPL compliance?
> 
> This is a feature, as people did not want oe-core tied to a given mirror.

This is the "OE core doesn't generate versioned git tarballs" problem people keep talking about. I know I can edit each and every recipe to add ';rebasable=true', but I'd like a global solution before the GPL police starts looking at the angstrom source mirrors.

regards,

Koen