[OE-core] [PATCH 6/7] gnupg.org-hosted recipes: Change SRC_URI to https site

[Jussi Kukkonen]

On 26 May 2016 at 16:01, Olof Johansson <olof.johansson at axis.com> wrote:
> On 16-05-25 16:29 +0300, Jussi Kukkonen wrote:
>> https version seems more reliable and in an informal test fetching
>> all gnupg recipes now takes <20% of the time it used to.
>>
>> Define GNUPG_MIRROR in bitbake.conf so future tweaks to this are
>> easier. Replace some slower mirrors with the official ftp site
>> and another from gnupg.org mirror list.
>>
>> Change gnutls to use GNUPG_MIRROR as well: they have their own domain
>> but the ftp site is the slow, unreliable gnupg.org one.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Jussi Kukkonen <jussi.kukkonen at intel.com>
>> ---
> ...
>> -SRC_URI = "ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/gnupg/gnupg-${PV}.tar.bz2 \
>> +SRC_URI = "${GNUPG_MIRROR}/gnupg/gnupg-${PV}.tar.bz2 \
>
> I'm not fond of having variables like these, since it makes the
> URL in the recipe harder to work with and interpret. Maybe not a
> deal breaker, but we already have PREMIRRORS, which can be used
> instead of variable indirection. A similar patch, almost a year
> ago, was rejected.

I'm not attached to the variable, I'll change those to plain URLs if
that's preferred.

Jussi


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