[yocto] Differing fetch results

[Gary Thomas]

On 2013-09-13 08:47, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> 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?

I do use own-mirrors, but in this case the mirror directory is empty.

Because my local mirror is empty, all the required files were downloaded into
${BUILD}/downloads.  My question is why some of them had "original" dates,
yet others have today's date.

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