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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KLGUz-0005dw-5D for openembedded-devel@openembedded.org; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:57:46 +0200 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1KLGTt-0007vu-N4 for openembedded-devel@openembedded.org; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:56:37 +0000 Received: from s55917625.adsl.wanadoo.nl ([85.145.118.37]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:56:37 +0000 Received: from k.kooi by s55917625.adsl.wanadoo.nl with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:56:37 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: openembedded-devel@openembedded.org From: Koen Kooi Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:56:22 +0200 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: s55917625.adsl.wanadoo.nl User-Agent: Thunderbird/3.0a2pre (Macintosh; 2008062403) In-Reply-To: Sender: news Subject: Re: Stable source repository X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 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: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:57:46 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Esben Haabendal wrote: > Hi > > For some reason, some OSS projects does not offer persistent access to > old releases, > which continously give problems for OE and other similar distributions. Angstrom already provides a sourcemirror for exactly this reason. > > With the org.openembedded.stable branch, this problem is considerably worse. > The usual fix in .dev is to upgrade the recipes to a current release, > which of-course > is not what we want for a stable branch. > > Take for example > http://bugs.openembedded.net/show_bug.cgi?id=4227 Fakeroot is present on the angstrom sourcemirror. > I think it is worth considering a permanent solution to this kind of problems. > We should have a download server which carries all sources referred to > by http and ftp URI's in org.openembedded.stable recipes. > Why not setup ftp://downloads.openembedded.org/org.openmbedded.stable > to mirror a copy of all sources referred to by current .stable recipes, and > when a bug is filed with a missing source, the solution is simply to change > the SRC_URI to use the ftp://downloads.openembedded.org URI instead. > > Of-course, unless continous manual labor is to be required, we need to > write a script or something like that to maintain the mirror repository. The angstrom autobuilder updates the sourcemirror already with distributable sources. > And we need a server with enough storage and a big fat pipe to the > Internet. > > What do you think? If you use a sane distro like angstrom, you will automagically have a source mirror. regards, Koen