[yocto] Raspberry Pi do_fetch failure

[Alex J Lennon]

On 16/01/2013 13:59, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Jan 2013, Alex J Lennon wrote:
>
>> On 16/01/2013 05:45, Ed Nelson wrote:
>>> I finally got a response back from github ....
>>>
>>> Hi Ed,
>>>
>>> We tracked the issue down to an internal network timeout (it only happens
>>> when `--quiet` is used, because git is silent on the network while preparing
>>> the clone in that case). We've bumped up the limit, and you should be able
>>> to clone now. Please let us know if you have any more trouble.
>>>
>>> ....
>>>
>>> I have not tried it yet but hopefully they fixed the problem
>> I've just tried it and it is still failing -
>>
>> WARNING: Failed to fetch URL
>> git://github.com/raspberrypi/linux.git;protocol=git;branch=rpi-3.2.27,
>> attempting MIRRORS if available
>> ERROR: Fetcher failure: Fetch command failed with exit code 128, output:
>> Cloning into bare repository
>> '/data_drive/RPiMonoSmoke/yoctoProject/raspberryPiBuild/downloads/git2/github.com.raspberrypi.linux.git'...
>>
>> fatal: read error: Connection timed out
>> fatal: early EOF
>> fatal: index-pack failed
>>
>> ERROR: Function failed: Fetcher failure for URL:
>> 'git://github.com/raspberrypi/linux.git;protocol=git;branch=rpi-3.2.27'.
>> Unable to fetch URL from any source.
>    github has been particularly annoying with respect to this lately.
> my workaround is to simply clone what you need manually, then tweak
> the recipe thusly to point at your local repo:
>
> SRCREV = "10182a3bc434b27740f81c2b836a1af943060241"
> SRC_URI =
> "git:///home/rpjday/oe/dist/t/linux;protocol=git;branch=rpi-3.2.27 \
>            "
>
>    yes, it's hacky, but it lets me get back to work.  sure be nice when
> this silliness is resolved.
>
> rday
>

Thanks Robert. I've got an archive I can use but wanted to see if it was 
working yet.

I think the fetcher archives up the retrieved git repo into a .tar.gz 
doesn't it in the downloads
directory? Would  it not help if those tarballs were mirrored so the 
fetcher could fall back on
the mirror?

Cheers, Alex