[yocto] ALT_SRC_URI ?

[Richard Purdie]

On Wed, 2012-05-30 at 16:08 +0000, McClintock Matthew-B29882 wrote:
> 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"

There is an open bug on this issue. Fixing it requires some invasive
changes to the fetcher code so its not been done yet and I wanted to get
the checksum issues out the way first.

Cheers,

Richard