Re: [RFC] DISTRO_MIRRORS / DISTRO_PREMIRRORS

[Saul Wold <sgw@linux.intel.com>]

On 06/15/2011 09:13 AM, Khem Raj wrote:
> 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.
>>
How up to date is it and how is it maintained? Is it possible for this 
mirror site to fall behind oe-core?

Sau!

>> --
>> Sau!
>>
>> Saul Wold
>> Yocto Component Wrangler @ Intel
>> Yocto Project / Poky Build System
>>
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