Manually fetching files (and disabling the sanity-checker)

Hi all,

I've given up trying to work around Sony's firewall. After repeated attempts I still can't get any 'git:'-based URLS to work through the firewall.

I vaguely recall the last time I worked on this (about 5.0 timeframe) there was a mirror where tarballs could be downloaded, if the git fetch didn't work.

Is this mirror still available? If not, is there any way to disable the sanity-checker, and have bitbake tell me what repositories it's looking for, so I can manually construct a local mirror for yoctoproject to work off of?

Is there any way to extract the tarballs from a build appliance image?

Any advice or pointers would be appreciated.

-- Tim

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Tim Bird
Architecture Group Chair, CE Workgroup of the Linux Foundation Senior Staff Engineer, Sony Network Entertainment
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Quoted 5 lines · Tim Bird

Hi all,

I've given up trying to work around Sony's firewall. After repeated attempts I still can't get any 'git:'-based URLS to work through the firewall.

Quoted 8 lines

I vaguely recall the last time I worked on this (about 5.0 timeframe) there was a mirror where tarballs could be downloaded, if the git fetch didn't work.

Is this mirror still available? If not, is there any way to disable the sanity-checker, and have bitbake tell me what repositories it's looking for, so I can manually construct a local mirror for yoctoproject to work off of?

To disable the sanity check you can set CONNECTIVITY_CHECK_URIS to "" and that will cause it to be skipped.

Regarding the mirroring, have you tried to just set the PREMIRRORS to use only http* and ftp in your local.conf:
PREMIRRORS = "\

ftp://.*/.*      http://downloads.yoctoproject.org/mirror/sources/ \n \
http://.*/.*     http://downloads.yoctoproject.org/mirror/sources/ \n \
https://.*/.*    http://downloads.yoctoproject.org/mirror/sources/ \n"

I am not sure, but this might force protocols. You could try a "bitbake -c fetchall universe"

I am going have Michael H. get you the information about where the the Downloads are.

Let me know how it goes.

From: [email protected] [mailto:yocto- [email protected]] On Behalf Of Tim Bird
Sent: Friday, August 03, 2012 10:07 AM

Just to report back, I successfully used this and the instructions Michael Halstead provided, from https://lists.yoctoproject.org/pipermail/yocto/2012-
May/008966.html
to work around my non-working Sony proxy issue.

So thank you both very much! I completed several builds in the past week, and am looking forward to doing some experimentation with my own custom distribution, for some research I'm doing.

Hi all,

I've given up trying to work around Sony's firewall. After repeated attempts I still can't get any 'git:'-based URLS to work through the firewall.

I vaguely recall the last time I worked on this (about 5.0 timeframe) there was a mirror where tarballs could be downloaded, if the git fetch didn't work.

Is this mirror still available? If not, is there any way to disable the sanity-checker, and have bitbake tell me what repositories it's looking for, so I can manually construct a local mirror for yoctoproject to work off of?

Is there any way to extract the tarballs from a build appliance image?

Any advice or pointers would be appreciated.

-- Tim

=============================
Tim Bird
Architecture Group Chair, CE Workgroup of the Linux Foundation Senior Staff Engineer, Sony Network Entertainment
=============================

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[email protected]
https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto

Hi all,

I've given up trying to work around Sony's firewall. After repeated attempts I still can't get any 'git:'-based URLS to work through the firewall.

I vaguely recall the last time I worked on this (about 5.0 timeframe) there was a mirror where tarballs could be downloaded, if the git fetch didn't work.

Is this mirror still available? If not, is there any way to disable the sanity-checker, and have bitbake tell me what repositories it's looking for, so I can manually construct a local mirror for yoctoproject to work off of?

Is there any way to extract the tarballs from a build appliance image?

Any advice or pointers would be appreciated.