[oe] [PATCH] base.bbclass: introduce OE source mirror network as last resort for do_fetch

[Holger Hans Peter Freyther]

On Friday 14 August 2009 16:29:22 Rolf Leggewie wrote:
> Updating recipes and checksums.ini for vanishing upstream hosts or simple
> restructuring can quickly become a chore for OE devs if taken seriously.
> The OE user experience suffers severely when at any given point in time 4
> to 5 recipes on average fail do_fetch for a simple image.
>
> The solution is for OE to provide its own caching of upstream sources.
> mirrors.openembedded.org is a swarm of possibly incomplete source mirrors
> provided by the community and load-balanced via DNS round robin.  They
> act as a first line of defense and lower bandwidth load on melo which
> hosts sources.openembedded.org.  The melo mirror aims to have a complete
> copy of free-to-publish sources used by the current org.oe.dev branch.
>
> Some distributions have provided source mirrors in the past for their
> users. I think it's time for a general and all-encompassing solution.
>
> The infrastructure is being currently put in place.  This patch will
> turn on the OE sources mirror network by default.

Acked-by: Holger Freyther <zecke at selfish.org>

I think having a last resort is good to have. Some recipes are unfetchable 
faster than you can commit it (fakeroot I look like you...giving me that hong 
kong feeling)


> ---
>  classes/base.bbclass |    4 ++++
>  1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/classes/base.bbclass b/classes/base.bbclass
> index 5363e5c..51648da 100644
> --- a/classes/base.bbclass
> +++ b/classes/base.bbclass
> @@ -1312,6 +1312,10 @@ ftp://lsof.itap.purdue.edu/pub/tools/unix/lsof/ 
> ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/utils/adm
> ftp://lsof.itap.purdue.edu/pub/tools/unix/lsof/ 
> ftp://sunsite.ualberta.ca/pub/Mirror/lsof/
> ftp://lsof.itap.purdue.edu/pub/tools/unix/lsof/ 
> ftp://the.wiretapped.net/pub/security/host-security/lsof/
> http://www.apache.org/dist  http://archive.apache.org/dist
> +ftp://.*/.*     http://mirrors.openembedded.org/
> +https?$://.*/.* http://mirrors.openembedded.org/
> +ftp://.*/.*     http://sources.openembedded.org/
> +https?$://.*/.* http://sources.openembedded.org/
>
>  }