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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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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yocto mailing list
[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.

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.