[yocto] BB_NO_NETWORK and own-mirrors not working with meta-systemd

[William Mills]

On 09/20/2012 04:08 PM, Evade Flow wrote:
> To bring this full circle... if you want to build behind a restrictive
> firewall using pre-mirrored sources and BB_NO_NETWORK, be aware that
> recipes which:
>
>    1. Specify a git repo as the source, and,
>
>    2. Specify the revision to be built using a tag name
>
>
> will cause your build to abort when bitbake tries to run 'git ls-remote'
> to resolve the tag name.  So don't specify SRC_URI like this:
>
>
>    SRC_URI = "git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/kernel/kmod/kmod.git;protocol=git;tag=v${PV}"
>
> Instead, use:
>
>    SRC_URI = "git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/kernel/kmod/kmod.git;protocol=git;tag=8885ced062131214448fae056ef453f094303805;branch=master"
>
>
> I added a note about this to the Wiki:
>
>    - http://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/How_do_I#Non-networked_Builds_and_Cached_Git_Respositories
>
> I'm still new to Yocto, so someone please chime in if any of this
> information is incorrect...
>

If true, this seems very unfortunate.  This seems to push people in the 
wrong direction.  Is there a reason the fetchers don't pull down the 
tags when they mirror in the first place?