From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Korsgaard Date: Mon, 23 May 2016 21:38:30 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] Config.in: Use CDN kernel.org mirror In-Reply-To: <20160523180451.73efcf39@free-electrons.com> (Thomas Petazzoni's message of "Mon, 23 May 2016 18:04:51 +0200") References: <1464017813-22503-1-git-send-email-abrodkin@synopsys.com> <20160523174643.777faf11@free-electrons.com> <87bn3wepiq.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> <20160523180451.73efcf39@free-electrons.com> Message-ID: <877fekef9l.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net >>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni writes: > Hello, > On Mon, 23 May 2016 17:57:01 +0200, Peter Korsgaard wrote: >> > Should this list of mirrors be removed? >> >> Does it even make sense to have a configuration option for it if the CDN >> is used? > I asked the exact same question when a person came on IRC to suggest > this change. I referred to what we did for the SourceForge situation. > But apparently, this CDN thing is less smart than the SourceForge thing > in that it might redirect you to a non-working mirror (i.e it doesn't > check). :/ > However, the person on IRC was also suggesting to do the change for > BR2_GNU_MIRROR, so maybe the case is different. > So, I would suggest to change the default values for now, leave it this > way for a while, and if nobody complains of failed downloads, we can > remove the option completely. Ok. Missing files should normally fall back to sources.b.o, so we might not hear about it though. -- Venlig hilsen, Peter Korsgaard