[yocto] problem with fetching?

[Richard Purdie]

On Wed, 2010-11-10 at 07:31 -0600, Kumar Gala wrote:
> On Nov 10, 2010, at 7:29 AM, Richard Purdie wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 2010-11-10 at 06:32 -0600, Kumar Gala wrote:
> >> ERROR: Task failed: Fetch failed: Unable to fetch URL cvs://anonymous@cvs.sv.gnu.org/cvsroot/config;module=config;method=pserver;date=20080123 from any source.
> >> NOTE: package gnu-config-native-0.1+cvs20080123-r1: task do_fetch: Failed
> >> ERROR: Task 211 (virtual:native:/local/home/galak/poky-laverne-4.0/meta/recipes-devtools/gnu-config/gnu-config_20080123.bb, do_fetch) failed with 1
> >> ERROR: 'virtual:native:/local/home/galak/poky-laverne-4.0/meta/recipes-devtools/gnu-config/gnu-config_20080123.bb' failed
> >> 
> >> Attached is the full log.
> > 
> > Are you behind some kind of proxy/firewall? Its interesting its a cvs
> > based recipe that is failing so it could be your cvs setup.
> 
> Yes, behind a proxy/firewall.  cvs is not normally allowed out.
> 
> > You could try placing
> > http://autobuilder.pokylinux.org/sources/config_cvs.sv.gnu.org__20080123.tar.gz
> > 
> > into the downloads directory manually and touching the
> > config_cvs.sv.gnu.org__20080123.tar.gz.md5 file there to show the
> > fetcher the fetch is complete. If that works it would suggest the mirror
> > fallback code in the fetcher isn't working as intended.
> 
> I'm new to this, where would my download dir be?

It defaults to "build/downloads" so in the build directory unless you
changed it in local.conf.

Cheers,

Richard