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

[Richard Purdie]

On Wed, 2011-09-21 at 21:49 +0200, Koen Kooi wrote:
> 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.

Is this a versioned tarball problem or just the tarballs not being
generated at all?

Are you setting BB_GENERATE_MIRROR_TARBALLS?

Cheers,

Richard