From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Tue, 24 May 2016 20:44:09 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [git commit branch/next] Config.in: Use CDN kernel.org mirror Message-ID: <20160524184438.DD66981DD3@busybox.osuosl.org> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net commit: https://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/commit/?id=de76cb7da734dde2204a7ea9ff60e24cbe857ddb branch: https://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/commit/?id=refs/heads/next It turned out for quite some time CDN-powered mirror of kernel.org is available. See this announce: https://www.kernel.org/introducing-fastly-cdn.html This change switches to that faster mirror by default. Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin Cc: Thomas Petazzoni Cc: Peter Korsgaard [Thomas: tweak the help text.] Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni --- Config.in | 8 +++++--- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/Config.in b/Config.in index 93b4f69..b8e5d18 100644 --- a/Config.in +++ b/Config.in @@ -225,10 +225,12 @@ config BR2_BACKUP_SITE config BR2_KERNEL_MIRROR string "Kernel.org mirror" - default "https://www.kernel.org/pub" + default "https://cdn.kernel.org/pub" help - kernel.org is mirrored on a number of servers around the world. - The following allows you to select your preferred mirror. + kernel.org is mirrored on a number of servers around the + world. The following allows you to select your preferred + mirror. By default, a CDN is used, which automatically + redirects to a mirror geographically close to you. Have a look on the kernel.org site for a list of mirrors, then enter the URL to the base directory. Examples: