[poky] Write-protect $DL_DIR

[Eric Bénard]

Hi Gary,

On 21/12/2010 16:45, Gary Thomas wrote:
> In my quest for a well-packaged Poky that I can distribute
> to my customers, I'd like to give them a pre-populated $DL_DIR
> tree (also in response to those customers that have little or
> no net access). This would likely be in /opt/XYZ and practice
> would dictate that it be read-only.
>
> Sadly, this doesn't work. When I try to build Poky with a
> read-only $DL_DIR, it simply hangs on every 'fetch' step.
>
> Note: I could avoid this problem (although I think it's a
> bug even if it should never be experienced) by being able
> to easily provide source mirrors for the packages. So far,
> I've not figured out how to do this; I'd like to add my
> own mirror lists, similar to those in meta/classes/poky.bbclass
> Would this be a way forward? If so, how?
>
maybe something like own-mirrors in OE could be interesting :
http://cgit.openembedded.net/cgit.cgi/openembedded/tree/classes/own-mirrors.bbclass

Eric