[oe] [meta-oe][TEMP PATCH] gd: Temporary patch while libgd.org is down, do not commit to main repository!

Paul Barker paul at paulbarker.me.uk
Thu Mar 28 14:03:20 UTC 2013


On 28 March 2013 14:00, Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> On Thursday 28 March 2013 13:56:13 Paul Barker wrote:
>> On 28 March 2013 13:34, Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com> wrote:
>> > On Thursday 28 March 2013 11:16:10 Paul Barker wrote:
>> > > This is just a temporary patch to change the SRC_URI for gd as the
>> > > upstream
>> > > source libgd.org has been down for a week or so now. The MD5 and SHA256
>> > > sums match so this should be the exact same archive. It is not intended
>> > > to go in the main repository but may be useful to some of you until
>> > > libgd.org is back up.
>> >
>> > This is what we have MIRRORS for - perhaps we could add an entry to
>> > MIRRORS to handle this?
>>
>> I just went for a quick and dirty fix as I'm not very experienced with
>> bitbake recipes yet. Would this be added to mirrors.bbclass directly
>> or should I add a MIRRORS += line to the gd recipe?
>
> Since this is specific to the gd recipe I'd say in the recipe itself.

I'll rewrite my fix to append to MIRRORS in the recipe, test it and
re-send the patch if it works.

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Paul Barker

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