Could someone provide a sources tarball

[lardman]

Hmm, looks like it's changed size - perhaps I downloaded it while you were uploading.

No worries I've just started it download part b again; a measly 280kbps - 45min or so it reckons ;-).


Si

[Pyrates]

Yeah, that's probably a good idea  The first one was 800 in size as well, are you sure you got it?

Cheers
Philipp

[Pyrates]

Anyway, the last one is up. Get it, while it's still hot  Hope everything goes well and you end up with a fine tarball, otherwise let me know...

Cheers
Philipp

[lardman]

Thanks :-)

I've re-downloaded the second one and it is now 800Mb, all well and good.

The last one looks like it's 597.9Mb according to Firefox, should take about 15min to download (frustrating having a fast connection but no Linux otherwise I could just do this myself).

So what are these files then? .taraa, .tarab, .tarac; what should I use to stick them back together? Or is this automatically handled (a la WinZip)?

Thanks again,


Si

[Pyrates]

Ok, the last one is just smaller than the other ones, so you should be fine (i.e. by now you should have oe_sources.taraa, oe_sources.tarab and oe_sources.tarac with sizes 800,800 and 584 megaytes).

Put them somewhere on a linux box, and do "cat oe_sources.taraa oe_sources.tarab oe_sources.tarac > oe_sources.tar" and you should end up with a fine tarball. Let me know if it works (I guess theres a similar tool to cat on Windows, but I wouldn't know...).

Cheers
Philipp

[lardman]

It worked fine, thank you very much :-)

time to start writing .oe files :-)


Si

[Pyrates]

Hey great! Wish you luck with the oe files, I tried it for some time, but the apps wouldn't compile against the latest versions of qte, so I eventually gave up...

Cheers
Philipp

[lardman]

Right, I started a build this morning and I just took a look at it and it's fallen over on one of the CVS packages.

You seem to have a source/cvs directory with all of the CVS packages below it - I suppose I need to install CVS and tell oe that my computer is a cvs mirror?

Can anyone suggest how this should be done (as oe.org is not really working).

Cheers,


Si

[zenyatta]

I'm not sure what you mean by "one of the CVS packages" - do you mean one of the packages that are fetched file-by-file from CVS rather than in a tarball? Or do you mean the "cvs" package? I'm not even sure at the moment whether OE installs its own CVS setup or relies on the existing one... Anyway, the best treatment I've found for a non-building OE is to tweak the CVS_DATE variable (put a line saying CVS_DATE=200411041100 into local.conf, or something like that). If you go far enough into the past you'll stumble upon a configuration that works

z.

[lardman]

I'm not sure what you mean by "one of the CVS packages" - do you mean one of the packages that are fetched file-by-file from CVS rather than in a tarball?

yes. gnu-config-native to be exact.

Anyway, the best treatment I've found for a non-building OE is to tweak the CVS_DATE variable (put a line saying CVS_DATE=200411041100 into local.conf, or something like that). If you go far enough into the past you'll stumble upon a configuration that works

This works if the CVS data is downloaded as a tarball, but for some reason I've got it in directories. (CVS_DATE should also in the form yyyyddmm).

I've taken to running oemake opie-image, then looking to see what the CVS tarball would be called and then tar'ing up the directory and sticking it in the sources directory. Not pretty but hopefully it'll work :-)

Is there a way of specifying a local CVS mirror? The oe.org site still refuses to serve anything but the main wiki page so I can't look there :-(

Cheers,


Si

[zenyatta]

You can always tweak the .oe file that's giving you trouble - there is a "Sources" line or something like that which contains a URL which you need to change. Again, I'm not sure whether you want to use the "local" CVS access method or the "pserver" method with localhost being the server. One of those ways should definitely be possible.