[OE-core] [PATCH 0/2] bitbake.conf: add GITHUB_GIT

[Otavio Salvador]

On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 5:32 AM, Olof Johansson <olof.johansson at axis.com> wrote:
> Excerpts from Robert Yang's message of 2015-07-30 09:09:07 +0200:
>> PREMIRRORS is for all the recipes/protocols ?
>
> No, PREMIRRORS is quite expressive, for instance:
>
> PREMIRRORS = " \
>   https?$://downloads.example.org$/.*   http://mirror.example.com/ \n \
> "
>
> This should only premirror downloads.example.com files, fetched via http
> or https. See the bitbake fetcher's uri_replace method in
> bitbake/lib/bb/fetch2/__init__.py for the implementation.

Yes, you can.

But the mirrors scheme allows for, for example, map it for git:// and
https:// protocols without changing the recipes.

I am in favor of consistency here and having a unique var for github helps.

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