Bug 11594

Summary:	update docs to note gitsm fetcher does not mirror and list the sources it pulls
Product:	[Build System, Metadata & Runtime] BitBake	Reporter:	Mikko Ylinen <mikko.ylinen>
Component:	bitbake	Assignee:	Mikko Ylinen <mikko.ylinen>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Medium+	CC:	kergoth, poky.bs.watcher, poky.watcher
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	2.4 M4
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Multiple
Whiteboard:
OS type for building Yocto:	---	Type of Regression:	---
Verified:		Documentation change:	Yes (doc changes required)

Description Mikko Ylinen 2017-05-31 06:00:45 UTC

gitsm fetcher is not able to use a source mirror for the git submodules it pulls. Furthermore the submodule sources it pulls are not visible to the licensing infrastructure/archiver.

The first part is a documented limitation while the latter isn't.

Comment 1 Richard Purdie 2017-06-01 14:34:07 UTC

CAn you send a patch documenting this latter part please? This is one reason I have a rather strong dislike of the gitsm fetcher and in some ways wish we'd never merged it. I'd be happy to see patches making the license class error for gitsm:// urls.

Comment 2 Christopher Larson 2017-08-29 15:15:19 UTC

We should be able to fix this via the intended implementation for Issue #11831. By reworking the submodules to use the bitbake fetcher, we'll have more visibility into their fetch process and mirrors will be used for the submodules.

Comment 3 Mikko Ylinen 2017-10-06 08:48:00 UTC

patch sent to bitbake-devel.

Comment 4 Mikko Ylinen 2017-10-09 04:01:47 UTC

the doc update merged in bitbake master.