[oe] Request for a personal git tree for AT91/AVR32

[Ulf Samuelsson]

> On 08-12-08 17:26, Ulf Samuelsson wrote:
>>> On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 4:44 PM, Ulf Samuelsson
>>> <ulf.samuelsson at atmel.com> wrote:
>>>> I ran into a problem that linux would not build because if you
>>>> use linux and request UIMAGE, then you fail because
>>>> u-boot-mkimage is not available.
>>> Well, u-boot native tools are built perfectly now, and uImages
>>> work. Try to build for afeb9260 machine, and see for yourself.
>>> I tried that yesterday, it works perfectly.
>>>
>>
>> If you can't download the source you can't build the tools.
> 
> Sourcemirrors and tarballstashes in OE provide tarballs, not 1:1 mirrors 
> of the scms. Had you actually read the error message you would have 
> noticed that it did something like:
> 

I don't have it in front of me, but IIRC the recipy for u-boot.git 
tries to do *git* access to the *source mirror*.
It was not trying to download a tarball.
That must simply be wrong.

> 1) try source mirror for tarball -> FAIL
> 2) try upstream repo -> FAIL
> 3) error out
> 
> if 1) fails it means the autobuilder hasn't build and mirror that rev 
> yet. 2) means an error on your end, be it corporate firewall or the 
> infamous --tags bug in bitbake 1.8.10.
> 
> Note that the angstrom sourcemirror has been real good at hiding the 
> bitbake 1.8.10 bug.
> 
> regards,
> 
> Koen
> 


Best Regards
Ulf Samuelsson