Bug 3220

Summary: sstate: fetcher should download sstate packages directly to right prefix
Product: [Build System, Metadata & Runtime] OE-Core Reporter: Martin Jansa <Martin.Jansa>
Component: coreAssignee: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: Medium CC: meta.mr.watcher, meta.watcher
Version: 1.4   
Target Milestone: 1.4   
Hardware: x86   
OS: Multiple   
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Description Martin Jansa 2012-10-03 16:26:38 UTC 
First reported on ML
http://lists.linuxtogo.org/pipermail/openembedded-core/2012-August/027125.html
and then also in
https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2897

The problem is that when someone is using SSTATE_MIRRORS then all packages are downloaded first to sstate-cache and then only symlink is created in right prefix.

So the problem why this prefix dir was added - number of entries in sstate-cache dir, get actually worse for people with SSTATE_MIRRORS (64^2 new directories - if all used). And they already had two times more entries, because fetcher stores .done file too.
Comment 1 Richard Purdie 2013-02-14 21:39:59 UTC 
Patches on the bitbake list to address these issues. file:// urls should just work. http mirrors need to be specified as:

SSTATE_MIRRORS = "file://.* http://192.168.1.69/PATH;downloadfilename=PATH"

Once the bitbake patches merge, we need to update local.conf.sample files and docs.
Comment 2 Richard Purdie 2013-02-15 12:32:32 UTC 
Fixed with http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit.cgi/poky/commit/?id=21efb536089b1fd6f00c1174bb3fcdbc5dfd8870 and preceeding bitbake patches.