On Friday, September 17, 2010 15:41:17 Tomáš Chvátal wrote:
> i found the painfull way that kernel eclass does not die if it fails to
> unpack patch file supplied to it.
> 
> So i propose the patch i attach for inclusion :)

looks ok, thanks

> patchfile gets ignored and you might fail to notice it (as it happened
> to me since i use different workbox and commit box and upstream gladly
> for fetching returns html code instead of good old 404).

if it's a site listed in thirdpartymirrors, then it should be removed from the 
mirror list.  if it's a site listed in SRC_URI, be nice to find a different 
site, but i guess that's not always feasible.
-mike