[yocto] ALT_SRC_URI ?

[McClintock Matthew-B29882]

On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 9:20 AM, David Nyström <david.nystrom at enea.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Since meta-fsl-ppc:s git daemon(git://git.freescale.com) was down, I
> experimented with adding the http reference as a mirror.
>
> MIRRORS_prepend = "\
> git://git.freescale.com/ppc/sdk/linux.git
> git://git.freescale.com/git/cgit.cgi/ppc/sdk/linux.git;protocol=http \n "
>
> Which failed and gave me:
> http://pastebin.com/5sTQ0eMC
>
> It shows bitbake trying to fetch something assumed to be created as a
> bitbake mirror, mangling the name.
>
> How would I go about doing above ?, getting it to failover to my own
> specified link ?

It appears to expect mirrors to be in a tarred up bare git repository.
Not sure if there is a way around this. You could do an override
somewhere:

SRC_URI_pn-linux-qoriq-sdk = "git://some/other/place"

-M