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From: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>
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On Tue, 2010-12-21 at 08:45 -0700, Gary Thomas wrote:
> In my quest for a well-packaged Poky that I can distribute
> to my customers, I'd like to give them a pre-populated $DL_DIR
> tree (also in response to those customers that have little or
> no net access).  This would likely be in /opt/XYZ and practice
> would dictate that it be read-only.
> 
> Sadly, this doesn't work.  When I try to build Poky with a
> read-only $DL_DIR, it simply hangs on every 'fetch' step.
> 
> Note: I could avoid this problem (although I think it's a
> bug even if it should never be experienced) by being able
> to easily provide source mirrors for the packages.  So far,
> I've not figured out how to do this; I'd like to add my
> own mirror lists, similar to those in meta/classes/poky.bbclass
> Would this be a way forward?  If so, how?
> 
> Thanks for any ideas

Make the readonly directory a file:// source in PREMIRRORS. You can use
the SSTATE_MIRRORS syntax in local.conf to do this without a class file.

It won't actually copy them to DL_DIR if they're already local.

Cheers,

Richard