From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Mon, 23 May 2016 17:46:43 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] Config.in: Use CDN kernel.org mirror In-Reply-To: <1464017813-22503-1-git-send-email-abrodkin@synopsys.com> References: <1464017813-22503-1-git-send-email-abrodkin@synopsys.com> Message-ID: <20160523174643.777faf11@free-electrons.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hello, On Mon, 23 May 2016 18:36:53 +0300, Alexey Brodkin wrote: > It turned out for quite some time CDN-powered mirror > of kernel.org is available. See this announce: > https://www.kernel.org/introducing-fastly-cdn.html > > This change switches to that faster mirror by default. > > Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin > Cc: Thomas Petazzoni > Cc: Peter Korsgaard That's a good change. It was suggested some time ago on IRC, and we should do it. > config BR2_KERNEL_MIRROR > string "Kernel.org mirror" > - default "https://www.kernel.org/pub" > + default "https://cdn.kernel.org/pub" > help > kernel.org is mirrored on a number of servers around the world. > The following allows you to select your preferred mirror. > @@ -236,6 +236,9 @@ config BR2_KERNEL_MIRROR > http://www.XX.kernel.org/pub (XX = country code) > http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/ftp.kernel.org Should this list of mirrors be removed? > + Now when kernel.org is mirrored by CDN as well we'll be using > + it by default to speed-up downloads all over the world. I'm sorry, but I don't understand this sentence. Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com