From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.chez-thomas.org (hermes.mlbassoc.com [64.234.241.98]) by mx1.pokylinux.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D21BF4C808B0 for ; Tue, 21 Dec 2010 16:34:18 -0600 (CST) Received: by mail.chez-thomas.org (Postfix, from userid 999) id 921E61660552; Tue, 21 Dec 2010 15:34:17 -0700 (MST) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on hermes.chez-thomas.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=4.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable version=3.3.1 Received: from hermes.chez-thomas.org (hermes_local [192.168.1.101]) by mail.chez-thomas.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39E261660524; Tue, 21 Dec 2010 15:34:16 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: <4D112B68.10303@mlbassoc.com> Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 15:34:16 -0700 From: Gary Thomas User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101209 Fedora/3.1.7-0.35.b3pre.fc13 Thunderbird/3.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Richard Purdie References: <4D10CB88.4040308@mlbassoc.com> <4D10D857.8080906@intel.com> <4D10F862.5040302@mlbassoc.com> <1292966869.25087.6574.camel@rex> In-Reply-To: <1292966869.25087.6574.camel@rex> Cc: poky@yoctoproject.org 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 22:34:19 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 12/21/2010 02:27 PM, Richard Purdie wrote: > On Tue, 2010-12-21 at 11:56 -0700, Gary Thomas wrote: >> On 12/21/2010 09:39 AM, Scott Garman wrote: >>> 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. >> >> Done, bug #606. > > Sorry but this isn't what is being asked and I don't think that bug is > reasonable. DL_DIR needs to be writeable. You can implement a readonly > mirror just fine without requiring that so we have what I think is a > very reasonable way to solve the problem. >> I'll also look at Richard's new support for MIRRORS/PREMIRRORS >> to see how to make it work for my environment. > > Please do this and report back on how you get one. I'm fine with > documenting this and making things clearer. Turning DL_DIR into some new > mirror and having a new writable area for state information isn't the > right way to solve this problem though when we have mirror handling for > exactly this kind of use case already. I understand that these are really [now] two separate things. I had been trying to use $DL_DIR as a pure mirror, but your change of today will make that no longer necessary. I went ahead and filed the bug about a read-only $DL_DIR because it causes the build to hang/build silently which could cause confusion. The build should either fail at fetch time with a message or be sanity checked. I've tried your changes and they solve my problem well, thanks. -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Gary Thomas | Consulting for the MLB Associates | Embedded world ------------------------------------------------------------