Re: [PATCH 2/2] sanity: implement network connectivity test

[Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Sun, 2011-06-26 at 11:08 -0700, Khem Raj wrote:
> On 06/26/2011 10:37 AM, Joshua Lock wrote:
> > On Sat, 2011-06-25 at 19:33 -0700, Khem Raj wrote:
> >> On 6/25/2011 5:53 PM, Saul Wold wrote:
> >>>> + # If no URI's set, fallback to some default ones we know of
> >>>> + if len(test_uris) == 0:
> >>>> + test_uris = ["http://yoctoproject.org/about",
> >>>> +
> >>>> "https://eula-downloads.yoctoproject.org/crownbay/crownbay-bernard-5.0.0",
> >>>>
> >>>> + "git://git.yoctoproject.org/yocto-firewall-test;protocol=git;rev=HEAD"]
> >>>> + retval = ""
> >>
> >> imo this change is yocto specific doesnt belong to core
> >
> > Are you objecting to the feature (testing whether the fetchers can work
> > on a newly configured tmpdir) or the implementation (using
> > yoctoproject.org URI's)?
> 
> the latter

I'd just point out that this is a test URL and turning off a load of
checks designed to improve usability just based on the test url seems a
little counter-intuitive to improving new user usability of OE.

Cheers,

Richard