[poky] How to create a PREMIRROR

[Gary Thomas]

On 2012-03-12 09:26, Mark Hatle wrote:
> On 3/10/12 4:42 AM, Zoufal Andreas wrote:
>> Thx Mark, I will try it. One more question: which files are really required for the mirrors?
>> Only the archives or the "done" files, patch files, patch result files etc?
>
> I believe you don't need the done files. I'm not sure about the others. (I didn't remove them in my usage, as they're small enough and they allow me to use the DL_DOWNLOAD to keep
> the mirror up to date.)

All [true] files at the top level of 'downloads', except for the .done ones
This does include some patches (bash!) and mostly tarballs.

>> ________________________________________
>> From: poky-bounces at yoctoproject.org [poky-bounces at yoctoproject.org] On Behalf Of Mark Hatle [mark.hatle at windriver.com]
>> Sent: Friday, March 09, 2012 4:58 PM
>> To: poky at yoctoproject.org
>> Subject: Re: [poky] How to create a PREMIRROR
>>
>> On 3/9/12 9:40 AM, Zoufal Andreas wrote:
>>> Hello everybody,
>>>
>>> I am new here in this mailing list. We are starting to use Yocto/Poky for an
>>> embedded project, and we have the need to collect all source code in our SVN
>>> repository for the case internet is not available. I think using PREMIRRORS (and
>>> SSTATE_MIRRORS for speedup) is the right way?
>>>
>>> How to create and maintain a local PREMIRRROR? What is the best practice? I’m
>>> pretty sure this is not the first time for this question, so can you give me
>>> some hints for a good documentation, or advices?
>>
>> For the premirrors, what I've done is start a new build directory.. setup my
>> DL_DIR to some place "safe".. and then do a "bitbake -c fetchall world"
>>
>> I then export my DL_DIR for others via NFS, FTP, HTTPS, etc... whatever is
>> appropriate within your organization -- then everyone else uses PREMIRROR
>> settings to use that DL_DIR.
>>
>> For the SSTATE_MIRROR, you can do something similar... but sstate_mirroring is
>> really only useful if everyone is on a fast link. In my experience anything
>> slower then a gigabit link and it's usually (not always) faster to compile stuff
>> locally, then pull from an sstate_mirror.
>>
>> (Also if you have problems with an sstate_mirror, please let us know. Not a lot
>> of people are using them yet -- I had some issues w/ 1.1 and the sstate being
>> used by multiple userids, but I believe these are resolved in newer versions.)
>>
>> --Mark
>>
>>> Thanx, Andi
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