[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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