From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Korsgaard Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2017 15:03:49 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] pcre: Change download location In-Reply-To: <20170307140253.60681b57@free-electrons.com> (Thomas Petazzoni's message of "Tue, 7 Mar 2017 14:02:53 +0100") References: <5f582368-797e-10ad-1c19-a998496cabbf@ya.ru> <20170306212039.4134ccee@free-electrons.com> <87d1dtdzim.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> <20170307140253.60681b57@free-electrons.com> Message-ID: <878tohdvzu.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net >>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni writes: > Hello, > On Tue, 07 Mar 2017 13:47:45 +0100, Peter Korsgaard wrote: >> I'm a bit confused about the description. To me it sounds like a local >> firewall issue with ftp access instead, but OK - Others might have a >> similar setup. > If you look at Buildroot 2015.11, as point out in the commit log, it > contains: > PCRE_VERSION = 8.38 > PCRE_SITE = ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programming/pcre > However, the 8.38 version is no longer available at > ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programming/pcre, the oldest > available version from this site is 8.39. > Hence, the fact that we have been using > ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programming/pcre in older > Buildroot versions means that these older versions are now "broken" and > have to fallback on sources.buildroot.net. > So, no: it's not a local issue due to a firewall. But how would this cause several TIMEOUTS? E.G. something where wget will try several times to contact the ftp server. It should just have done a single ftp login + get, and as soon as it failed fall back to sources.buildroot.net unless something is causing the ftp connection to "hang". -- Bye, Peter Korsgaard