[yocto] Differing fetch results

[Paul Eggleton]

Hi Gary,

On Friday 13 September 2013 07:54:51 Gary Thomas wrote:
> I just did a build, totally from scratch, using the current master:
>    commit dd36930f3f37b2e0e1258de28ac1b1fa99cf196f
>    Author: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org>
>    Date:   Thu Sep 12 13:06:22 2013 +0000
> 
> I mention "from scratch" as I did this on a fresh machine with
> no pre-downloaded sources. (I mostly build using sources I've
> already collected over the past years...)  What I noticed is
> that many of the freshly downloaded packages have the same
> time stamps as the ones in my download repository, but a fair
> number have today's date on them.
> 
> Here are a few examples of downloads that differ:
> 
> My sources repository:
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 gthomas gthomas  1781068 May 14 04:19 bison-2.7.1.tar.xz
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 gthomas gthomas  2213841 May 14 04:19 gmp-5.1.1.tar.bz2
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 gthomas gthomas   983500 Aug  8  2012 gperf-3.0.4.tar.gz
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 gthomas gthomas  2826473 Aug  8  2012 ncurses-5.9.tar.gz
> 
> Today's build:
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 gthomas gthomas  1781068 Sep 13 12:11 bison-2.7.1.tar.xz
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 gthomas gthomas  2213841 Sep 13 12:11 gmp-5.1.1.tar.bz2
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 gthomas gthomas   983500 Sep 13 12:12 gperf-3.0.4.tar.gz
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 gthomas gthomas  2826473 Sep 13 12:12 ncurses-5.9.tar.gz
> 
> Note: the MD5 hashes match so these are the same files, just different
> dates.
> 
> Can someone explain why they are different?  The full list of files
> which were downloaded to build a minimal image are attached.

You haven't set up local PREMIRRORS (perhaps via own-mirrors.bbclass) by any 
chance?

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre