[yocto] Basic failures building 1st Yocto Project and Yocto Raspberry Pi

[Alex J Lennon]

On 02/01/2013 21:55, Gary Thomas wrote:
> On 2013-01-02 14:47, David Evans wrote:
>> Dear Sirs,
>>
>> I apologise for asking this question to everyone, but I can't figure out who best to direct this question to.
>>
>> When I build the standard Yocto Project in the Quick-Start guide I get the following Warnings.
>>
>> WARNING: Failed to fetch URL http://www.apache.org/dist/subversion/subversion-1.7.6.tar.bz2, attempting MIRRORS if available
>> WARNING: Failed to fetch URL ftp://ftp.ossp.org/pkg/lib/uuid/uuid-1.6.2.tar.gz, attempting MIRRORS if available
>> WARNING: Failed to fetch URL http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/libpng/libpng12/1.2.49/libpng-1.2.49.tar.bz2, attempting MIRRORS if available
>>
>> As a complete Newbie to Yocto, having the Quick-Start fail like this is killing me, as I have no stable example upon which to build my under standing.
>>
>> My ultimate goal is to run the Raspberry Pi project as outlined at http://www.pimpmypi.com/blog/blogPost.php?blogPostID=7, but I am seeing the same do_fetch failures as those
>> reported by Ed Nelson at https://lists.yoctoproject.org/pipermail/yocto/2013-January/013571.html.
>>
>> Any help will be much appreciated.
> 
> What version of Yocto (OE-core) do you have?  Those are pretty old
> recipes and the corresponding tarballs seem to no longer be available.
> If you update your repositories, you may get farther along.
> 
> n.b. when you run bitbake, you'll see a summary of what repositories
> you are using.  Posting that would help a lot.
> 

fwiw I followed these instructions over the Christmas period and they
worked well for me to build a working RPi image.

You do see warnings from time to time as the build tool fails to find a
primary source, but usually it falls back to a mirror (although it
doesn't seem to tell you that) and works.

Have you tried adding a few -vv 's to the bitbake command line to give
you some more information about what's going on?

Cheers,

Alex