[yocto] Downloading Git Archives

[Ross Burton]

On 27/09/2019 05:33, Chuck Wolber wrote:
> I was hoping that there was an equally simple way of grabbing git 
> repository packages from an Internet connected host without having a 
> bitbake build cache them for me.

The easy way is to get bitbake to do it for you.  A git mirror tarball 
is just a clone with a specific name and path, but the easy solution is 
definitely to run bitbake --c fetchall on a machine with connectivity 
and expose the DL_DIR to the builders.

This is what the yocto autobuilder does, by the way.  The workers don't 
have connectivity to the outside internet, so the master does a fetchall 
with the proxies configured to populate DL_DIR before the workers do the 
actual build.

Ross