[Buildroot] [autobuild.buildroot.net] Build results for 2016-09-02

[Carlos Santos]

> From: "Jérôme Pouiller" <jezz at sysmic.org>
> To: buildroot at busybox.net
> Cc: "Thomas Petazzoni" <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com>, "Alexey Brodkin" <Alexey.Brodkin at synopsys.com>
> Sent: Saturday, September 3, 2016 1:03:13 PM
> Subject: Re: [Buildroot] [autobuild.buildroot.net] Build results for	2016-09-02

> On Saturday 03 September 2016 08:30:33 Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> [...]
>> mips64el |              util-linux-2.28.1 | NOK |
>> http://autobuild.buildroot.net/results/e45931629ee3f5dc45de6940a2c0983435f77e00
>>      sh4 |              util-linux-2.28.1 | NOK |
>> http://autobuild.buildroot.net/results/b3649dedd048515844675cd48b84bab74eb897f8
>>   x86_64 |              util-linux-2.28.1 | NOK |
>> http://autobuild.buildroot.net/results/26b3a4de1fb8b366727299ff5de7d59b3e521c23
> 
> wget do not accept certificate from cdn.kernel.org. It seems to be
> related to :
>   https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=409938
> 
> wget >= 1.13-1 is necessary to fix problem. I see three solutions:
>  1. Revert de76cb7da734dde2204a7ea9ff60e24cbe857ddb ("Use CDN
>     kernel.org mirror")

This can slow down the downloading of many source files.

>  2. Use http instead if https

I suspect that this would require passing "--no-hsts" to wget (did not test with an old version to confirm).

>  3. Check wget version in dependencies.sh

What would be the approach, in thes case, compiling wget as a host tool?

> Any opinion?

I'd vote for option 3, since wget 1.13.1 is already five years old. I'd ask the developer to migrate to a more up-to-date OS installation rather than spending a lot of effort to circumvent the problem in Buildroot.

Carlos Santos (Casantos)
DATACOM, P&D