[poky] Write-protect $DL_DIR

Gary Thomas gary at mlbassoc.com
Tue Dec 21 10:56:34 PST 2010


On 12/21/2010 09:39 AM, Scott Garman wrote:
> On 12/21/2010 07:45 AM, 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?
>>
>> Thanks for any ideas
>
> Hi Gary,
>
> Being able to do this is an important priority. Please file a bug to track it if there isn't a current workaround.

Done, bug #606.

I'll also look at Richard's new support for MIRRORS/PREMIRRORS
to see how to make it work for my environment.

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