Re: [Balloon] Problem building buildroot, and workaround

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Author: Nick Davidson
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To: Chris Jones, Balloon
Subject: Re: [Balloon] Problem building buildroot, and workaround
Chris,

I believe it should be snapshot.debian.org not snapshot.debian.net as
snapshot has become an official debian service. Why they didn't keep a
redirect alive or at least report a 301 permanently relocated I do not
know.

Nickd.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:
> [mailto:balloon-bounces@balloonboard.org] On Behalf Of Chris Jones
> Sent: 09 March 2011 11:00
> To: Balloon
> Subject: [Balloon] Problem building buildroot, and workaround
>
> I've been trying to build the Balloon software this morning
> and have come across a problem with buildroot. It wants to
> download some files from snapshot.debian.net. That site is
> currently not accepting connections, so buildroot hangs on
> more or less forever trying to access it.
>
> I worked around the problem by hand-hacking the file
> build/buildroot/buildroot-2010.11/package/fakeroot/fakeroot.mk
>
> and changing the variable FAKEROOT_SITE to point to
> http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20080427T000000Z/poo
> l/main/f/fakeroot/
>
> It all seems to work then. I have no idea whether this is a
> Debian problem, a buildroot problem, or something we can fix.
>
> Chris
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