Re: [Gumstix-users] A fix to the fix of the buildroot (?)

[Craig H. <cr...@gu...>]

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?

C