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From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] Config.in: Use CDN kernel.org mirror
Date: Mon, 23 May 2016 17:46:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160523174643.777faf11@free-electrons.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1464017813-22503-1-git-send-email-abrodkin@synopsys.com>

Hello,

On Mon, 23 May 2016 18:36:53 +0300, Alexey Brodkin wrote:
> It turned out for quite some time CDN-powered mirror
> of kernel.org is available. See this announce:
> https://www.kernel.org/introducing-fastly-cdn.html
> 
> This change switches to that faster mirror by default.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin <abrodkin@synopsys.com>
> Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
> Cc: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>

That's a good change. It was suggested some time ago on IRC, and we
should do it.

>  config BR2_KERNEL_MIRROR
>  	string "Kernel.org mirror"
> -	default "https://www.kernel.org/pub"
> +	default "https://cdn.kernel.org/pub"
>  	help
>  	  kernel.org is mirrored on a number of servers around the world.
>  	  The following allows you to select your preferred mirror.
> @@ -236,6 +236,9 @@ config BR2_KERNEL_MIRROR
>  	     http://www.XX.kernel.org/pub (XX = country code)
>  	     http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/ftp.kernel.org

Should this list of mirrors be removed?

> +	  Now when kernel.org is mirrored by CDN as well we'll be using
> +	  it by default to speed-up downloads all over the world.

I'm sorry, but I don't understand this sentence.

Thomas
-- 
Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
http://free-electrons.com

  reply	other threads:[~2016-05-23 15:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-05-23 15:36 [Buildroot] [PATCH] Config.in: Use CDN kernel.org mirror Alexey Brodkin
2016-05-23 15:46 ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]
2016-05-23 15:57   ` Peter Korsgaard
2016-05-23 16:04     ` Thomas Petazzoni
2016-05-23 16:11       ` Alexey Brodkin
2016-05-23 19:38       ` Peter Korsgaard
2016-05-23 16:04   ` Alexey Brodkin
2016-05-23 17:18     ` Thomas Petazzoni
2016-05-23 17:21       ` Alexey Brodkin
2016-05-24 18:44 ` Thomas Petazzoni

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