From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mga09.intel.com (mga09.intel.com [134.134.136.24]) by mx1.pokylinux.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 824F14C80050 for ; Tue, 21 Dec 2010 10:39:53 -0600 (CST) Received: from orsmga001.jf.intel.com ([10.7.209.18]) by orsmga102.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 21 Dec 2010 08:39:53 -0800 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.60,208,1291622400"; d="scan'208";a="689353588" Received: from rrsmsx603.amr.corp.intel.com ([10.31.0.57]) by orsmga001.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 21 Dec 2010 08:39:53 -0800 Received: from [10.255.14.33] (10.255.14.33) by rrsmsx603.amr.corp.intel.com (10.31.0.57) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 8.2.254.0; Tue, 21 Dec 2010 09:39:52 -0700 Message-ID: <4D10D857.8080906@intel.com> Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 08:39:51 -0800 From: Scott Garman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101208 Thunderbird/3.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: References: <4D10CB88.4040308@mlbassoc.com> In-Reply-To: <4D10CB88.4040308@mlbassoc.com> Subject: Re: Write-protect $DL_DIR X-BeenThere: poky@yoctoproject.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: Poky build system developer discussion List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 16:39:53 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 12/21/2010 07:45 AM, 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 Hi Gary, Being able to do this is an important priority. Please file a bug to track it if there isn't a current workaround. Scott -- Scott Garman Embedded Linux Distro Engineer - Yocto Project