[oe] fakeroot 1.15.1 issues

[Denys Dmytriyenko]

On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 09:11:36PM +0100, Frans Meulenbroeks wrote:
> 2011/12/23 Denys Dmytriyenko <denis at denix.org>
> 
> > On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 01:08:16AM -0800, Jesse Lackey wrote:
> > > I'm have exactly the same problem.  "git pull" says up to date.
> > >
> > > I'm continuing on by running "bitbake -k".  But things appear to be
> > > indeed broken, by the presumably recent removal of
> > > fakeroot_1.15.1.orig.tar.bz2 from the debian ftp site.
> > >
> > > Any assistance greatly appreciated.  I'm a total newbie with bitbake and
> > OE.
> > >
> > > >I tried `git pull` but apparently everything is "Already up-to-date."
> > Am I
> > > >missing something else?
> >
> > Add this line to your local.conf:
> >
> > DEBIAN_MIRROR = "
> > http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20111129T215729Z/pool"
> >
> 
> Actually bumped into this today as well; I saw maintenance moved back to
> 1.14.6 or so.
> Latest version is about 1.18.2.2.
> 
> Guess we should either move master back to 1.14.6, or maybe even move to a
> newer version. or fix the url to point to the snapshot copy.

So, instead of always chasing the very latest version, why not simply set the 
Debian mirror variable on a per-distro basis?

-- 
Denys