November 2017
Intermediate to advanced
162 pages
4h 8m
English
To improve the robustness of source code download, Poky provides a mirror mechanism that can be configured in order to do the following:
In order to provide this robust download mechanism, BitBake follows some steps. During the build, the first BitBake step is to search for the source code within the local download directory (specified by DL_DIR). In case of failure, the next step is to try locations defined by the PREMIRRORS variable. In a recurrent case of failure, it searches the locations specified in the MIRRORS variable.
The following section explains the PREMIRRORS and MIRRORS variables:
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