[Angstrom-distro-users] fetch is mangling svn SRC_URI with mirror names?

[Koen Kooi]

On 04-02-09 15:26, John Smith wrote:
> All:
>
> OE:org.openembedded.angstrom-2007.12-stable
> bitbake version 1.8.10
>
> I have a bb file with SRC_URI="svn://machine.local.net/something";module=..."
>
> Fetch seems to be concocting new URLs that start with common mirror names and end in a concotion of stuff from the SRC_URI.
>
> Typing ^C seems to kill the funny fetches and then the svn fetch runs OK and everything proceeds ok.
>
> Any thoughts?

That's the intended behaviour, it looks at the mirror first for a 
snapshot before hitting the SCM repo. Having thousands of people hitting 
an SCM repo is a bit antisocial when a static snapshot can be used instead.

regards,

Koen