[Buildroot] [PATCH] Config.in: Use CDN kernel.org mirror

Peter Korsgaard peter at korsgaard.com
Mon May 23 19:38:30 UTC 2016


>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> writes:

 > Hello,
 > On Mon, 23 May 2016 17:57:01 +0200, Peter Korsgaard wrote:

 >> > Should this list of mirrors be removed?  
 >> 
 >> Does it even make sense to have a configuration option for it if the CDN
 >> is used?

 > I asked the exact same question when a person came on IRC to suggest
 > this change. I referred to what we did for the SourceForge situation.

 > But apparently, this CDN thing is less smart than the SourceForge thing
 > in that it might redirect you to a non-working mirror (i.e it doesn't
 > check).

:/

 > However, the person on IRC was also suggesting to do the change for
 > BR2_GNU_MIRROR, so maybe the case is different.

 > So, I would suggest to change the default values for now, leave it this
 > way for a while, and if nobody complains of failed downloads, we can
 > remove the option completely.

Ok. Missing files should normally fall back to sources.b.o, so we might
not hear about it though.

-- 
Venlig hilsen,
Peter Korsgaard 


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