On Fri, Apr 2, 2021 at 1:16 PM Paul Gortmaker
<paul.gortma...@windriver.com> wrote:
>
> As per the comment in the file itself, we have to explicitly disable
> (pre)mirror support for both kernel repositories, or else the fetcher
> will unhelpfully volunteer to wget gigs of what amounts to largely
> useless content that we don't want.
>
> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortma...@windriver.com>
> ---
> meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto.inc | 10 ++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto.inc
> b/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto.inc
> index a85280990b43..5ec1b1ba7023 100644
> --- a/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto.inc
> +++ b/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto.inc
> @@ -56,3 +56,13 @@ do_install_append(){
>
> # enable kernel-sample for oeqa/runtime/cases's ksample.py test
> KERNEL_FEATURES_append_qemuall=" features/kernel-sample/kernel-sample.scc"
> +
> +# For linux-yocto-dev, the existing v3.17 based premirror tarball is of no
> +# value, and for the non-dev variants, we don't want to be going off and
> +# w-getting the 3+ gigabyte (!!!) mirror tarball either, when we've got
> +# a shared v5.10 repository already. We can delete this in the future once
> +# these old tarballs are gone. But really we may never bother to mirror
> +# either of them ever again, since they are (a) now small, and (b) leaf
> +# nodes at the end of the chain where the content is regularly changing.
> +PREMIRRORS = ""
> +MIRRORS = ""
I suppose these are already set somewhere else, so a ?= won't actually
override the defaults.
I was just trying to think of a way that someone might want to turn it
back on, and they'd have to use an override in a bbappend to do it ..
but I suppose that isn't any nastier than would be required with ?=
Bruce
> --
> 2.25.1
>
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