Fwd: [PATCH] treewide: use CDN for downloads

[Baptiste Jonglez]

Hi,

The important point is deciding whether to switch downloads to a CDN or
not.  It looks like a good candidate for a dev meeting discussion: please
prepare details about anticipated cost, how much fastly is sponsoring us
on that cost, and any limitations in the contract (time, bandwidth).

If we do take that decision, let's just alias downloads.openwrt.org to the
CDN and be done with it.

Baptiste

On 04-02-21, Paul Spooren wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I think this is a nice patch as it speeds up the package manager on
> devices and releases load on our infrastructure.
> 
> Additionally we could add a link in the Wiki pointing to the CDN rather
> than the origin server.
> 
> As this is a "deep" change of infrastucture (usage), I wanted to checkin
> with the adm list.
> 
> Best,
> Paul
> 
> Forwarded message from Paul Spooren on Sat Jan 30, 2021 at 12:11 PM:
> Use CDN for opkg repositories.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Paul Spooren <mail at aparcar.org>
> ---
> Tested with browser and opkg running on router.
> HTTP works only for specific user-agents and `ipk` files, this is a
> *limitation* (or security precaution) of the origin server not
> influenced by the CDN.
> 
> include/version.mk | 2 +-
> package/base-files/image-config.in | 2 +-
> 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/version.mk b/include/version.mk
> index b7f42e13bb..e38d22bcd4 100644
> --- a/include/version.mk
> +++ b/include/version.mk
> @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ VERSION_CODE:=$(call qstrip,$(CONFIG_VERSION_CODE))
> VERSION_CODE:=$(if $(VERSION_CODE),$(VERSION_CODE),$(REVISION))
>  
> VERSION_REPO:=$(call qstrip,$(CONFIG_VERSION_REPO))
> -VERSION_REPO:=$(if
> $(VERSION_REPO),$(VERSION_REPO),https://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots)
> +VERSION_REPO:=$(if
> $(VERSION_REPO),$(VERSION_REPO),https://downloads.cdn.openwrt.org/snapshots)
>  
> VERSION_DIST:=$(call qstrip,$(CONFIG_VERSION_DIST))
> VERSION_DIST:=$(if $(VERSION_DIST),$(VERSION_DIST),OpenWrt)
> diff --git a/package/base-files/image-config.in
> b/package/base-files/image-config.in
> index bfa3055cc8..71de5fd59f 100644
> --- a/package/base-files/image-config.in
> +++ b/package/base-files/image-config.in
> @@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ if VERSIONOPT
> config VERSION_REPO
> string
> prompt "Release repository"
> - default "https://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots"
> + default "https://downloads.cdn.openwrt.org/snapshots"
> help
> This is the repository address embedded in the image, it defaults
> to the trunk snapshot repo; the url may contain the following
> placeholders:
> --
> 2.29.2
> 
> 
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