Also when i hit git using http, git clone http://anongit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/bootstrap libo
I get the following error: fatal: http://anongit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/bootstrap/info/refs not found: did you run git update-server-info on the server? Has it to do something with the server or problem is from my end? -- Swagat On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 3:41 PM, swagat sharma <swagat.sha...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi Michael, > > Thanks for the reply. > I was not getting the codebase through git because I'm behind proxy. I > tried http as well, but couldn't manage to get the latest codebase. > The one I have was downloaded long back, so I was using it specifically for > my problem of custom properties. > > And I read what you suggested to Olivier. But still I am unable to clone > the code. I'll try downloading the latest tarballs though. Because git is > almost next to impossible for me. > > Thank You. > Regards, > Swagat > > On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 3:17 PM, Michael Meeks > <michael.me...@novell.com>wrote: > >> Hi Swagat, >> >> On Tue, 2011-07-26 at 11:45 +0530, swagat sharma wrote: >> > Thank you for the support. >> > Now I am getting build errors. I have downloaded the all the tarballs >> > of libreoffice 3.3.2.2. >> >> Oh - goodness; 3.3.2.2 is a horribly old code-base; also building >> from >> tar-balls is really not recommended. >> >> IMHO we need to provide a way for people to "download" the git >> repositories in a way that they can understand; apparently using 'git >> clone' is too hard for most. >> >> Swagat - did you try cloning from git by using the http mirrors ? >> [ perhaps we should default to that on the web-site or be more >> explicit ? ]: >> >> git clone >> http://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/libreoffice/bootstrap.git/ >> >> It would be great to find out how you ended up building from >> archives >> of something so old Swagat - can you help us understand your thinking so >> we can improve the docs ? >> >> > I have added all the dependencies by running >> > sudo apt-get build-dep libreoffice >> >> Great :-) >> >> > from solver... failed Fetching dependencies for module postprocess >> > from solver... failed Fetching dependencies for module packimages from >> >> This looks like you don't have the 'postprocess' source archive >> downloaded and inside src/ - or at least that unpacking has failed >> somehow. >> >> Without all the code you'll struggle to build it. >> >> But of course, I'd really like to try to address your trouble with >> git >> - Olivier was suffering the same thing some few days ago and I'm sure >> its a common problem (but fewer are brave enough to ask perhaps) :-) >> >> Thanks, >> >> Michael. >> >> -- >> michael.me...@novell.com <><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot >> >> >> >
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