[Bitbake-dev] How to prevent fetchers from using the "try_mirror"step?

[Philip Black]

I have things set up in the following way...
Say you have a project foo, that is developed in house, then I would
have
packages/foo/foo.inc
packages/foo/foo_local.bb
packages/foo/foo_1.2.0.0.bb

the foo.inc holds the core of the build (obviously). foo_1.2.0.0.bb is
an official release, and points to some server some where that hosts the
file foo_1.2.0.0.tar.gz, and foo_local.inc (or equivalently, a foo_git,
foo_svn, etc) is assumed to be a working copy.  the recipe for foo_local
has the variable DEFAULT_PREFERENCE = "0" to prevent bitbake from trying
to use it.  If you are doing active development, then you set
PREFERRED_VERSION_foo = "local" in your local.conf file, to let it use
the local version.

Since I'm on a number of collaborative projects, I don't want OE/bitbake
to fetch tip revisions of the code, and so foo_local build requires you
to set FOO_SRC = /path/to/source.  It can then either build out of that
directory, or, if you support out of source builds, just know to point
to that location for building.

Phil 
On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 17:39 -0400, Matthieu Poullet wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm working on an Intranet and have some internal SVN/GIT servers I
> fetch from.
> 
> AFAIUI all fetchers call "try_mirror" first resulting in wget trying
> to fetch a tarball version of the repo.
> If it fails, it then tries to do a real checkout from the repo
> mentionned in the URI.
> 
> This wget call uses SRC_TARBALL_STASH so that it's possible to
> redirect it to an internal web server.
> 
> I've set up a web server and set SRC_TARBALL_STASH but I don't want to
> use this for the internal servers.
> It's fine for stuff I don't want to manage myself, but otherwise it
> means that I must:
> 1 - commit changes
> 2 - generate a new tarball
> 3 - put this tarball on my web server
> 4 - rebuild the recipe
> 
> that's a terrible workflow.
> 
> If I don't use tarballs at all, everytime I rebuild it, i must wait a
> very long time until wget timeout and then fetches from the repo,
> that's terrible too.
> 
> What I'd like to have could be a list of IP addresses and/or domain
> names which the fetchers check first and then bypass the try_mirror
> step.
> 
> But maybe I'm missing something or there's another way to do this, but
> I haven't found it yet.
> I've asked many times in #oe without luck, I hope maybe someone here
> could help.
> 
> Regards,
> Matthieu.
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