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

[Saul Wold]

On 01/02/2013 01:55 PM, 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
>>
Notice that these are WARNINGS, bitbake is doing the right thing and 
falling back to the Yocto Project Mirrors where those older tarballs do 
exist.

>> 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.
>>
Is your build failing beyond this?  Are you able to create an image?  I 
recently built RPi, myself and it worked OK for me, both images.


If you have other failures please let us know.


>> 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.
>
Both Openembedded and the Yocto Project keep mirrors of the older 
tarballs since as you say some upstreams remove older tarballs from 
their sites.


Sau!

> n.b. when you run bitbake, you'll see a summary of what repositories
> you are using.  Posting that would help a lot.
>