Hi Claudius,
On 6/12/24 12:20 PM, Claudius Heine wrote:
Hi everyone,
in the past we used cgit, which provided cloning the u-boot repo via
http, https, ssh and the git protocol.
When we migrated to gitlab, which doesn't support the git protocol, we
implemented some additional service files to continue to support it for
some of our git repositories.
We just noticed that cloning via the git protocol is currently broken,
likely some changes in gitlab happened and we would need to recreate the
symlinks on the server to point to the right repositories again.
Since that is another thing to maintain and keep up, we would like to
just shut the git protocol down. AFAIK most projects moved to use https
for cloning anyway, since there were not many reports of broken cloning.
What are your thoughts? Is it worth the effort to keep the git protocol up?
On the side of OpenEmbedded-Core, HTTPS is being used since Langdale
(4.1) and the first dot release of Kirkstone (4.0.1) so only outdated
layers would be impacted (provided they aren't already, but since
there's a download cache system in Yocto, it's possible they're hitting
their own local cache instead of fetching it from your server(s)).
It's never nice to see things going/breaking compatibility because it
may break old builds which is always a nice trick up one's sleeve to
figure out when things started to go wrong in one's image. Also, while I
checked OE-Core, other third party/community maintained layer could be
impacted. I assume this is the case of meta-amarula-engicam[1] and
meta-allwinner-hx[2] for example.
I would suggest sending a mail to the different build systems mailing
lists, I assume https://lists.openembedded.org/g/openembedded-devel and
https://lists.yoctoproject.org/g/yocto for the OE-Core/YP side? Either
to ask for their opinion or notify them (and specifically third party
layers) it's going away or both.
[1]
https://github.com/amarula/meta-amarula-engicam/blob/master/recipes-bsp/u-boot/u-boot-common_2018.05.inc
[2]
https://gitlab.com/dimtass/meta-allwinner-hx/blob/master/recipes-bsp/u-boot/u-boot-common.inc
Cheers,
Quentin
