[yocto] autobuilder: How to set PREMIRRORS?

[Paul Eggleton]

On Tuesday 16 December 2014 20:14:23 Flanagan, Elizabeth wrote:
> 2014-11-19 15:12 GMT+00:00 Bryan Evenson <bevenson at melinkcorp.com>:
> > All,
> > 
> > I'm getting close to implementing this feature, but I'm having some issues
> > getting auto.conf formatted correctly.  See below.> 
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Bryan Evenson
> >> Sent: Monday, November 17, 2014 9:08 AM
> >> To: Bryan Evenson; yocto at yoctoproject.org; elizabeth.flanagan at intel.com
> >> Subject: RE: autobuilder: How to set PREMIRRORS?
> >> 
> >> All,
> >> 
> >> After looking through the autobuilder code, I don't see anywhere in which
> >> PREMIRRORS can be set and used.  I see in CreateAutoConf.py that
> >> PREMIRRORS is always set to "".  I don't think it'd be that difficult to
> >> add PREMIRRORS as a CreateAutoConf parameter for the buildsets.  I can
> >> work on the change and submit the patch.  But before I start I have a
> >> few questions:
> >> 
> >> 1. I plan on implementing the PREMIRRORS parameter as an array, similar
> >> to
> >> 'layerdirs' for CreateBBLayersConf.  For example:
> >> 
> >> {'CreateAutoConf' : {'PREMIRRORS' : ['git://.*/.*
> >> http://our/local/mirror/path/mirror/sources/ ',
> >> 
> >>       'ftp://.*/.* http://our/local/mirror/path /mirror/sources/ ',
> >>       'http://.*/.* http://our/local/mirror/path/mirror/sources/ ',
> >>       'https://.*/.* http://our/local/mirror/path/mirror/sources/ ']}
> >> 
> >> would add the following to auto.conf:
> >>  PREMIRRORS = 'git://.*/.* http://our/local/mirror/path/mirror/sources/ 
> >>  \
> >>  
> >>       ftp://.*/.* http://our/local/mirror/path /mirror/sources/  \
> >>       http://.*/.* http://our/local/mirror/path/mirror/sources/  \
> >>       https://.*/.* http://our/local/mirror/path/mirror/sources/ '
> >> 
> >> Does this sound reasonable, or would a different parameter format be
> >> preferred?
> 
> I would actually do this similar to how we have DEVKERNEL_MUT_REPO.
> 
> PREMIRRORS = ['git://.*/.*
> http://our/local/mirror/path/mirror/sources/', 'ftp://.*/.*
> http://our/local/mirror/path /mirror/sources/', 'http://.*/.*
> http://our/local/mirror/path/mirror/sources/', 'https://.*/.*
> http://our/local/mirror/path/mirror/sources/']

I don't think we support setting a variable to a list like this - does that 
actually work?

Cheers,
Paul

-- 

Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre