Installing toolchain from VSCode from a different artifactory source

[Colibri]

Hi,

I am currently using VSCode to download the latest available version for the nrf toolchain. However, our standard business policies forbid to download libraries directly from the internet, and to store them in our own artifactory repository first. I noticed that the libraries are also stored on artifactory on your end.

I have two questions for you:

- do you already have a standard procedure for us to download the toolchain from your artifactory repository to ours?

- is there a way to tweak the nrf Connect extension in VSCode for it to download from our artifactory repository instead of yours?

Thank you.

[Simonr]

Hi

1. I will get back to you tomorrow with more information on this.

2. No, the VS Code nRF Connect extension can not be tweaked and you will be restricted to using the command line and nrfutil tools to get the SDK and toolchain I'm afraid.

Best regards,

Simon

[Simonr]

1. We don't generally have a standard procedure to provide from our artifactory repositories directly, but I'm looking into whether we can provide something like this, but I need more time and will get back to you next week with a status report.

Best regards,

Simon

[Simonr]

Hi again Ronan

After some back and forth we have some updates here.

It's possible to set an environment variable telling the SDK manager where to look for the hosted configuration it relies on for where to download the SDK/toolchain from. It is some work to set this up and is not fully documented I'm afraid, but should be a possibility here.

You can see the environment variable mentioned here, but in terms of documentation that's it I'm afraid. This approach involves hosting the SDK bundles and toolchain bundles on your artifactory and setting up config files like the below:

• https://eu.files.nordicsemi.com/artifactory/ncs-src-mirror/external/sdk-manager/config.json (NRFUTIL_SDK_REMOTE_CONFIG_URL should be set to their equivalent of this path)
• https://eu.files.nordicsemi.com/artifactory/ncs-src-mirror/external/sdk-manager/index.json
• https://eu.files.nordicsemi.com/artifactory/NCS/external/bundles/config.json (NRFUTIL_TOOLCHAIN_REMOTE_CONFIG_URL should be set to their equivalent of this path)
• https://eu.files.nordicsemi.com/artifactory/NCS/external/bundles/v3/index-windows-x86_64.json (for windows and other required platforms) 

This isn't complicated, but also non-trivial in some ways. Ideally, your artifactory won't require authentication for these things (due to being on a private network for example), but there are methods/environment variables for providing authentication tokens for interactions too.

Best regards,

Simon

NOTE: Since this is a public ticket. These configs are publicly available, but are details that for most users won't be relevant and not necessary to use in most cases.