Re: A fix to the fix of the buildroot (?)

On Jul 9, 2005, at 7:32 AM, Craig Hughes wrote:

> On Jul 9, 2005, at 7:15 AM, Athanasios Anastasiou wrote:
>
>
> > Dave thanks for the suggested fix for the buildroot but  
> > unfortunately the URL you are providing if entered on a web page  
> > takes a user to a failed mirror webpage of sourceforge... I used  
> > this mirror (http://voxel.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/pcmcia-cs/ 
> > pcmcia-cs-3.2.8.tar.gz) to get pcmcia and it works, at least with  
> > wget, i am in the process of building a new image now.
>
> Ok, I've tried a handful of options here, and nothing seems to  
> reliably work right any more.  I think sf.net is determined to get  
> money from you to allow you access to the open source stuff which  
> people have hosted on their site.  I give them another 3 months of  
> survival time before every project migrates off there if they keep  
> that up.
>
> Anyway, in the meantime, I need to come up with a solution here.  I  
> think possibly the best option I can think of is a torrent server  
> which has all these tarballs on it, then just stick a URL to the  
> torrent in the buildroot makefiles.  Downside is then firewalling  
> becomes much more of an issue.  I don't really want to have to host  
> HTTP downloads of hundreds of giant tarballs though...
>
> Any thoughts folks?

While I figure out if there's some sensible way to meld torrents into  
the buildroot system, I've put torrents up of all the tarballs I had  
downloaded.  They're at http://svn.rungie.com/files/torrents and I'm  
seeding all of them.  Odds are good there's stuff missing from there  
which the buildroot wants, but it's a start.

C



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