[yocto] Disabling PREMIRRORS and upstream sources

[Rifenbark, Scott M]

Hi Jon, 

Thanks for the clarification on which manual release you were looking at.  I am the technical writer for the project so hopefully someone from the team will address the technical aspect of you issue.  If there is a way to disable these within a specific recipe then I can get that information into the documentation.  

Does anyone know if this is possible and how to do it?

Scott

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jon Szymaniak [mailto:jon.szymaniak at gmail.com]
>Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2012 8:26 PM
>To: Rifenbark, Scott M
>Cc: yocto at yoctoproject.org
>Subject: Re: [yocto] Disabling PREMIRRORS and upstream sources
>
>>>From: yocto-bounces at yoctoproject.org [mailto:yocto-
>>>bounces at yoctoproject.org] On Behalf Of Jon Szymaniak
>>>Sent: Monday, December 03, 2012 7:19 AM
>>>To: yocto at yoctoproject.org
>>>Subject: [yocto] Disabling PREMIRRORS and upstream sources
>>>
>>>Is there a simple way to disable the use of PREMIRRORS and MIRRORS
>>>within a recipe?
>>>
>>>(Perhaps the answer here might be worth mentioning in Section 12.23 of
>>>the
>>>Poky Reference  Manual?)
>>>
>>>My use case for this is the situation where the code hasn't been
>>>released yet,
>>>so there's no point in checking mirrors.
>>>
>>>Thank you,
>>>Jon
>
>
>> Isn't this set up in the local.conf file for global use?
>
>In the manual I see that there are indeed global options, configured via
>local.conf.
>
>However, I'm wondering if there's a way to denote that PREMIRRORS and
>MIRRORS
>should not be used for a *specific recipe* (i.e., only attempt to fetch
>via
>what's provided in SRC_URI, and still use the mirrors for other
>recipes).
>
>Perhaps this is a wacky thing to want to do. I just figured there's no
>sense
>in hitting all those 404's if I know the code associated with a specific
>recipe isn't on any of the standard mirrors.
>
>> Also, Jon, what documentation
>> are you referring to here?  Are you looking at the latest Yocto
>Project
>> documentation (e.g. http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/1.4/poky-ref-
>manual/poky-ref-manual.html
>> for the Yocto Project Reference Manual?).
>
>I think I may have actually been looking at an old manual version, but
>yes,
>that'd the documentation I was referring to. It seemed that 12.23, "How
>does
>the OpenEmbedded build system obtain source code..." seemed the most
>relevant
>to my question.
>
>Thanks!
>Jon