Re: How to create a PREMIRROR

[Mark Hatle <mark.hatle@windriver.com>]

On 3/9/12 9:40 AM, Zoufal Andreas wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> I am new here in this mailing list. We are starting to use Yocto/Poky for an
> embedded project, and we have the need to collect all source code in our SVN
> repository for the case internet is not available. I think using PREMIRRORS (and
> SSTATE_MIRRORS for speedup) is the right way?
>
> How to create and maintain a local PREMIRRROR? What is the best practice? I’m
> pretty sure this is not the first time for this question, so can you give me
> some hints for a good documentation, or advices?

For the premirrors, what I've done is start a new build directory.. setup my 
DL_DIR to some place "safe".. and then do a "bitbake -c fetchall world"

I then export my DL_DIR for others via NFS, FTP, HTTPS, etc... whatever is 
appropriate within your organization -- then everyone else uses PREMIRROR 
settings to use that DL_DIR.

For the SSTATE_MIRROR, you can do something similar... but sstate_mirroring is 
really only useful if everyone is on a fast link.  In my experience anything 
slower then a gigabit link and it's usually (not always) faster to compile stuff 
locally, then pull from an sstate_mirror.

(Also if you have problems with an sstate_mirror, please let us know.  Not a lot 
of people are using them yet -- I had some issues w/ 1.1 and the sstate being 
used by multiple userids, but I believe these are resolved in newer versions.)

--Mark

> Thanx, Andi
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