[yocto] problem with fetching?

[Kumar Gala]

On Nov 10, 2010, at 7:50 AM, Richard Purdie wrote:

> 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.

Looks like that makes things work, so appears as if fallback code in the fetcher is having issues.

See the issue again with another pkg:

NOTE: Fetch cvs://anoncvs:anoncvs@anoncvs.handhelds.org/cvs;module=apps/update-rc.d;tag=r0_7
ERROR: Task failed: Fetch failed: Unable to fetch URL cvs://anoncvs:anoncvs@anoncvs.handhelds.org/cvs;module=apps/update-rc.d;tag=r0_7 from any source.
ERROR: Task 1217 (virtual:native:/local/home/galak/poky-laverne-4.0/meta/recipes-core/update-rc.d/update-rc.d_0.7.bb, do_fetch) failed with 1
ERROR: 'virtual:native:/local/home/galak/poky-laverne-4.0/meta/recipes-core/update-rc.d/update-rc.d_0.7.bb' failed

- k