Op 22 sep. 2011, om 02:26 heeft Richard Purdie het volgende geschreven:

> On Wed, 2011-09-21 at 21:49 +0200, Koen Kooi wrote:
>> Op 21 sep. 2011, om 21:43 heeft Mark Hatle het volgende geschreven:
>> 
>>> On 9/21/11 2:38 PM, Philip Balister wrote:
>>>> I'm finally trying to get started with oe-core. I'm using a setup 
>>>> created with the setup-script created by Koen. Everything looks ok until 
>>>> it tried to build cpufrequtils. The recipe tries to fetch the source 
>>>> from a git repo at kernel.org. Obviously, the fetch fails.
>>>> 
>>>> What is odd, in the "good old days" I would expect this config to fall 
>>>> back and use the Angstrom source mirror, but apparently this is not the 
>>>> case with oe-core.
>>>> 
>>>> Is this a bug or a feature? If this is a bug, is there a plan to fix it? 
>>>> If it is a feature, how are we supposed to do builds if servers go away? 
>>>> What do we do about GPL compliance?
>>> 
>>> This is a feature, as people did not want oe-core tied to a given mirror.
>> 
>> This is the "OE core doesn't generate versioned git tarballs" problem
>> people keep talking about. I know I can edit each and every recipe to
>> add ';rebasable=true', but I'd like a global solution before the GPL
>> police starts looking at the angstrom source mirrors.
> 
> Is this a versioned tarball problem or just the tarballs not being
> generated at all?

versioned tarball problem, since the source mirror won't overwrite files with 
the same name, so unversioned ones are both useless and bandwidth wasting.
_______________________________________________
Openembedded-core mailing list
Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org
http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core

Reply via email to