Re: [Balloon] Problem building buildroot, and workaround

Hello Chris,

2011/3/9 Chris Jones <chris@martin-jones.com>:
> 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/pool/main/f/fakeroot/

Thanks for reporting. This should be fixed at SVN r1463.
The problem has been reported to buildroot upstream at:
< https://bugs.busybox.net/show_bug.cgi?id=3451 >

Best regards,
--
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