Hi, All
If you need often sync different versions of AOSP from google or internet, It's better for you to have a local AOSP mirror, it will help you to repo sync AOSP source much faster.
*1. Create a local AOSP mirror* Here is the link about how to create local AOSP mirror: https://source.android.com/source/downloading.html#using-a-local-mirror
$ mkdir -p /usr/local/aosp/mirror $ cd /usr/local/aosp/mirror $ repo init -u https://android.googlesource.com/mirror/manifest --mirror $ repo sync
*2. Use a local AOSP mirror* As described here https://source.android.com/source/downloading.html#using-a-local-mirror:
$ mkdir -p /usr/local/aosp/master $ cd /usr/local/aosp/master $ repo init -u /usr/local/aosp/mirror/platform/manifest.git $ repo sync
*3. linaro_android_build_cmds.sh supports to use mirror now.* Linaro releases each android build with a linaro_android_build_cmds.sh script which helps you repo sync and build the android source to reproduce the build. It supports using local mirror from now on, like:
./linaro_android_build_cmds.sh -t -u <url-aosp-mirror-manifest>
For other options of linaro_android_build_cmds.sh, please check the help or the release page of that build.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you do not use hackbox for Android building, you can ignore the following part now. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *4. Use AOSP mirror on hackbox.linaro.org http://hackbox.linaro.org* Since I often use hackbox to build android for different versions, I created a local AOSP mirror on hackbox, and it is synced every 6 hours. ***** If you have AOSP mirror on hackbox too, let's talk to keep only one for disk space.*****
The AOSP mirror path is here:
/home/yongqin.liu/aosp-mirror/
It's very similar to sync from AOSP or android-git.linaro.org, you can use it like this:
mkdir aosp-master
cd aosp-master
repo init -u /home/yongqin.liu/aosp-mirror/platform/manifest.git -p linux
repo sync
Or use it with linaro_android_build_cmds.sh like this:
./linaro_android_build_cmds.sh -u /home/yongqin.liu/aosp-mirror/platform/manifest.git -t -y
If you can specify --depth=1 or -g option for your repo init command, it will help you repo sync more faster. Like with, repo init -u /home/yongqin.liu/aosp-mirror/platform/manifest.git -p linux --depth=1
It took less than 10 minutes to finish the following repo sync command; $time repo sync -j8 ....... real 7m22.535s user 8m41.735s sys 2m13.250s $