[OE-core] [PATCH] mirrors.bbclass: Add new KERNELORG_MIRROR = ftp.sunet.se

Richard Purdie richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org
Mon Jan 30 11:15:22 UTC 2012


On Sun, 2012-01-29 at 16:35 +0100, Koen Kooi wrote:
> Op 29 jan. 2012, om 15:26 heeft Ulf Samuelsson het volgende geschreven:
> 
> > www.kernel.org is missing a lot of files.
> > Add the "ftp.sunet.se" mirror containing many missing files.
> 
> Since the files on kernel.org were removed because they might be
> compromised, why do we add a mirror that has kept the compromised
> files?

Its a valid question.

In our favour, we have checksums on all the SRC_URIs these days and I
look suspiciously at anyone changing then other than at version upgrade
time. We therefore have more protection in place than most for this kind
of problem.

Cheers,

Richard





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