Robert, We do have a question addressed in the Yocto Project Reference Manual that talks about premirrors and how Poky finds stuff. See the H.24 section of the manual http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/current/poky-ref-manual/poky-ref-manual.html. Maybe this information is a bit too buried to be useful. I could specifically reference that FAQ entry from within the QS in the same area that I mention the other "useful" items to consider in the local.conf file, such as BB_NUMBER_THREADS, etc.
Scott -----Original Message----- From: yocto-boun...@yoctoproject.org [mailto:yocto-boun...@yoctoproject.org] On Behalf Of Robert P. J. Day Sent: Sunday, October 30, 2011 7:40 AM To: Yocto discussion list Subject: [yocto] any objection to adding a PREMIRRORS section to the QS guide? perhaps outside the scope of QS, but might it be worth adding a short section on appending something like this to one's local.conf file before starting the download? PREMIRRORS_prepend = "\ git://.*/.* file:///home/rpjday/dl/ \n \ svn://.*/.* file:///home/rpjday/dl/ \n \ cvs://.*/.* file:///home/rpjday/dl/ \n \ ftp://.*/.* file:///home/rpjday/dl/ \n \ http://.*/.* file:///home/rpjday/dl/ \n \ https://.*/.* file:///home/rpjday/dl/ \n" the rationale is that, like myself, a number of people could be coming to yocto from OE and already have a sizable downloads directory somewhere on their system that they want to take advantage of and, with the above, if my downloads directory is up to date, i end up not having to download a single tarball from the net. thoughts? is the above relatively complete or is there anything else i would want to add to that variable? and, again, is it worth adding a side reference to that for people who could take advantage of it? rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ======================================================================== _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto