[yocto] should yocto QS guide mention SOURCE_MIRROR_URL?

[Khem Raj]

On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 1:27 AM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
>
>  in the current QS guide, late section "Configuring the local.conf
> File", is the advice:
>
> "A good deal that goes into a Yocto Project build is simply
> downloading all of the source tarballs. Maybe you have been working
> with another build system (OpenEmbedded, Angstrom, etc) for which
> you've built up a sizable directory of source tarballs. Or perhaps
> someone else has such a directory for which you have read access. If
> so, you can save time by adding the PREMIRRORS statement to your
> configuration file so that local directories are first checked for
> existing tarballs before running out to the net:
>
>     PREMIRRORS_prepend = "\
>     git://.*/.* file:///home/you/dl/ \n \
>     svn://.*/.* file:///home/you/dl/ \n \
>     cvs://.*/.* file:///home/you/dl/ \n \
>     ftp://.*/.* file:///home/you/dl/ \n \
>     http://.*/.* file:///home/you/dl/ \n \
>     https://.*/.* file:///home/you/dl/ \n"  "
>
>
>  should that be simplified to use SOURCE_MIRROR_URL, which is what i
> use:
>
> SOURCE_MIRROR_URL ?= "file:///home/rpjday/dl/"
> INHERIT += "own-mirrors"
> BB_GENERATE_MIRROR_TARBALLS = "1"
> # BB_NO_NETWORK = "1"
>
> rday
>
> p.s.  does SOURCE_MIRROR_URL accept multiple URLs?  i don't see that
> mentioned anywhere, but maybe i just missed it.


I think it will. Since it becomes PREMIRRORS and fetcher code in
bitbake checks for list
of mirrors.
>
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