Re: [RFC] DISTRO_MIRRORS / DISTRO_PREMIRRORS

[Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>]

On 06/15/2011 09:05 AM, Saul Wold wrote:
>
> Folks,
>
> Recently we have seen a number of fetch failures, due to upstream sites
> being down or deprecated (tinylogin, pscmic and others).
>
> The issue is that oe-core as a non-distro does not have a default set of
> mirrors, which causes the fetcher to fail as there is no fall-back
> mirror to distrubte the source code.
>
> As has been pointed out, different projects and distributions (Yocto
> Project and Angstrom) both have upstream source mirrors which could be
> used. Currently the Yocto Project defines it's MIRRORS and PREMIRRORS in
> meta-yocto/conf/distro/poky.conf.
>
> I propose that we add a list of DISTO_MIRRORS and DISTRO_PREMIRRORS with
> default settings pointing to the current autobuilder.yoctoproject.org
> source site. These would be added to the mirrors.bbclass, so that
> oe-core will have a default set of mirrors that can be overridden by a
> distro or layer.
>
> diff --git a/meta/classes/mirrors.bbclass b/meta/classes/mirrors.bbclass
> index 2146087..a52c6d5 100644
> --- a/meta/classes/mirrors.bbclass
> +++ b/meta/classes/mirrors.bbclass
> @@ -1,4 +1,22 @@
> +DISTRO_PREMIRRORS ?= "\
> +bzr://.*/.* http://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/sources/ \n \
> +cvs://.*/.* http://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/sources/ \n \
> +git://.*/.* http://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/sources/ \n \
> +hg://.*/.* http://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/sources/ \n \
> +osc://.*/.* http://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/sources/ \n \
> +p4://.*/.* http://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/sources/ \n \
> +svk://.*/.* http://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/sources/ \n \
> +svn://.*/.* http://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/sources/ \n"
> +
> +PREMIRRORS += "${DISTRO_PREMIRRORS}"
> +
> +DISTRO_MIRRORS ?= "\
> +ftp://.*/.* http://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/sources/ \n \
> +http://.*/.* http://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/sources/ \n \
> +https://.*/.* http://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/sources/ \n"
> +
> MIRRORS += "\
> +${DISTRO_MIRRORS} \
> ${DEBIAN_MIRROR}/main http://snapshot.debian.net/archive/pool \n \
> ${DEBIAN_MIRROR} ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool \n \
> ${DEBIAN_MIRROR} ftp://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/pool \n \
>
> Thoughts, ACKs, NAKs??
>

FWIW http://mirrors.openembedded.org/ also exists.
>
> --
> Sau!
>
> Saul Wold
> Yocto Component Wrangler @ Intel
> Yocto Project / Poky Build System
>
>
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