Re: [bitbake-devel] [PATCH 0/1] crates.io data access policy

Hi Johan,

On 4/27/26 3:51 PM, Johan Anderholm via lists.openembedded.org wrote:
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> It appears that the crate fetcher does not adhere to the data access policy
> of crates.io as is described here:
> 
> https://crates.io/data-access#api
> 
> Namely the part about adding a user-agent identifying the application and
> information on how to reach the project in case of issues.
> 
> Also users are requested to use the CDN instead of the download API, as that
> does not have a 1 request per second limit:
> 
> https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io/issues/13482#issuecomment-4304855751
> 
> This patch addresses the request to use a CDN and seems to fix a recent
> breakage of the crate fetcher. It does not address the part about a user-agent
> since I do not know how to do that, and I do not know what to put in it anyway.
> 

The crate fetcher is derived from the wget fetch method which does seem 
to implement a UA reporting bitbake and its version, see 234f9e810494 
("fetch2/wget: set User-Agent to 'bitbake/version' in checkstatus()"). 
The best thing would be to try yourself (I'm assuming having a webserver 
you control and change the fetcher to use your local webserver (or 
possibly even setting up a PREMIRRORS for crates)).

Cheers,
Quentin