On Thu, 2012-08-02 at 08:59 -0700, Chris Larson wrote: > On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 8:53 AM, Richard Purdie > <richard.pur...@linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > > On Thu, 2012-08-02 at 16:14 +0200, Martin Jansa wrote: > >> 2 more ideas: > >> > >> 1) would be great to also download file.sigdata if it exists, to be able > >> to compare them when they change even on machine which downloaded > >> older sstate file from remote url > >> 2) if the reason for this patch was number of files in shared > >> sstate-cache directory, then fetcher creating .done files makes > >> number double too (would be fine if fetcher stores all 3 files > >> (.tgz, .tgz.sigdata, .tgz.done) in right prefix, or moves them to > >> right prefix instead of symlinks. > > > > I'm aware of the problem. The main issue is that we probably need to > > start enforcing complete paths for all downloads in DL_DIR, including > > http:// urls. This would resolve conflicts like: > > > > SRC_URI = "http://server1.org/somefile.patch \ > > http://server2.org/somefile.patch"; > > > > where the two files are different. The trouble is it will pretty much > > break all the source mirrors :(. > > I think we need to stop the tendency to use DL_DIR as is as a mirror, > and instead create a task or something to populate a mirror directory > from the DL_DIR. This would avoid potential issues with licensing if > it uses license filtering to control what gets populated, as well.
I agree, there are some issues in that area and we shoudl encourage people to think about this. Having said that, I'm worried we are going to hit conflicts over DL_DIR regardless of that. Perhaps making this change might be a way to remind people of that.... Cheers, Richard _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
