From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Gsfb3-0003pH-IV for openembedded-devel@openembedded.org; Fri, 08 Dec 2006 14:17:01 +0100 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1GsfZm-0002aQ-Q4 for openembedded-devel@openembedded.org; Fri, 08 Dec 2006 14:15:42 +0100 Received: from r76b7.r.ppp-pool.de ([89.54.118.183]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 08 Dec 2006 14:15:42 +0100 Received: from no2spam by r76b7.r.ppp-pool.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 08 Dec 2006 14:15:42 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: openembedded-devel@openembedded.org From: Rolf Leggewie Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2006 14:15:27 +0100 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: r76b7.r.ppp-pool.de User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (X11/20061117) Sender: news Subject: RFC: encourage switch away from heanet.sf.net X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org List-Id: Using the OpenEmbedded metadata to build Distributions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2006 13:17:01 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, it occurred to me today that Sourceforge is not using that intermediate page anymore where it lists all the mirrors for a file to be downloaded. It used to be necessary that you click on one of the mirrors there to actually start the download from the browser. Instead they automatically 302 you now. Mirrors are there for a reason. Unfortunately, sf.net forced us in the past to use heanet.sourceforge.net for download since it was the only complete mirror. This is not the case any more, we can use downloads.sf.net but still be sure to get the files we need (assuming that sf.net will only redirect us to mirrors that *do* have the file). I therefore suggest to change bitbake.conf in the following way and request your comments on the matter (especially from hrw since RP suggested you are the most knowledgeable about sf.net and the associated, past problems). This would set the IMHO sane default from which users can still deviate via local.conf and site.conf - SOURCEFORGE_MIRROR = "http://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge" + SOURCEFORGE_MIRROR = "http://downloads.sf.net" For what it is worth, I for one have switched (via site.conf so far). Regards Rolf