On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 1:53 PM, Francois P. Gallichand < francois.p.gallich...@ca.abb.com> wrote:
> I'm working behind a firewall, on which I have absolutely no control, and > it does not allows the git protocol to go through. So I patch the recipes > to replace the git protocol by the http protocol and it works most of the > time. However one specific package, linux-yocto, does not seem to work even > If I use the http protocol. It either times-out during the fetch, of the > fetch goes on forever. > > > > Frustrated with that situation, I tried various things to realize that if > I tried to manually clone the git repository, it doesn't work with a "git > clone git://…;protocol=http;…" but if I use "git clone > http://...;protocol=http; > …",it is working fine. But the http:// form is not supported by bitbake > as if I use it in a recipe as the SRC_URI, bitbake gives me an error. > > > > Is it a bug with bitbake or am I doing something wrong? > not a direct answer to your question.. but I would recommend to look into using something like this: https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Working_Behind_a_Network_Proxy http://gitolite.com/git-over-proxy.html I have used that a lot in the past, when I had to deal with corporate firewalls, and it doesn't require that you patch any recipe.
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