are all of the download URL variables still valid?

are all of the download URL variables still valid?

[Robert P. J. Day]

  was just perusing bitbake.conf, and here:

https://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core/tree/meta/conf/bitbake.conf#n693

there's a pile of alleged download URLs that may nor may not still be
valid. I picked at random "XLIBS_MIRROR" and that variable is not used
in any of the layers i have checked out. is it worth checking whether
any of those can be deleted due to obsolescence?

rday

Re: [OE-core] are all of the download URL variables still valid?

[Richard Purdie]

On Fri, 2025-07-11 at 16:31 -0400, Robert P. J. Day via lists.openembedded.org wrote:
> 
>   was just perusing bitbake.conf, and here:
> 
> https://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core/tree/meta/conf/bitbake.conf#n693
> 
> there's a pile of alleged download URLs that may nor may not still be
> valid. I picked at random "XLIBS_MIRROR" and that variable is not used
> in any of the layers i have checked out. is it worth checking whether
> any of those can be deleted due to obsolescence?

I'd love a patch!

Cheers,

Richard

Re: [OE-core] are all of the download URL variables still valid?

[Robert P. J. Day]

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On Fri, 11 Jul 2025, Richard Purdie wrote:

> On Fri, 2025-07-11 at 16:31 -0400, Robert P. J. Day via lists.openembedded.org wrote:
> >
> >   was just perusing bitbake.conf, and here:
> >
> > https://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core/tree/meta/conf/bitbake.conf#n693
> >
> > there's a pile of alleged download URLs that may nor may not still be
> > valid. I picked at random "XLIBS_MIRROR" and that variable is not used
> > in any of the layers i have checked out. is it worth checking whether
> > any of those can be deleted due to obsolescence?
>
> I'd love a patch!

  Well, if anyone on this list can definitively identify any of those
entries that are clearly obsolete, point them out.

rday

Re: [OE-core] are all of the download URL variables still valid?

[Robert P. J. Day]

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On Fri, 11 Jul 2025, Richard Purdie wrote:

> On Fri, 2025-07-11 at 16:31 -0400, Robert P. J. Day via lists.openembedded.org wrote:
> >
> >   was just perusing bitbake.conf, and here:
> >
> > https://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core/tree/meta/conf/bitbake.conf#n693
> >
> > there's a pile of alleged download URLs that may nor may not still be
> > valid. I picked at random "XLIBS_MIRROR" and that variable is not used
> > in any of the layers i have checked out. is it worth checking whether
> > any of those can be deleted due to obsolescence?
>
> I'd love a patch!

  The only other obvious(?) candidate would seem to be GENTOO_MIRROR,
whose only usage in all of the layers I have checked out is for the
"vlock" recipe:

https://git.openembedded.org/meta-openembedded/tree/meta-oe/recipes-extended/vlock/vlock_2.2.3.bb

but that source appears to be available from salsa.debian.org:

https://salsa.debian.org/debian/vlock

  So AFAICT, if vlock was tweaked to fetch from salsa.debian.org,
there would be no apparent need to define/use GENTOO_MIRROR. That's
the only candidate for adjustment I see (in addition to XLIBS_MIRROR,
as I mentioned earlier).

rday