[bitbake-devel] [PATCH] bitbake/fetch2: add support for wrapper command

[McClintock Matthew-B29882]

On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 9:20 AM, Matthew McClintock <msm at freescale.com> wrote:
>>> I wrote a small blurb about why it was needed on the patch to oe-core,
>>> we are trying to do CVS or a SOCKS5 proxy that has authentication (the
>>> proxy) - I didn't see another way around this...
>>
>> Can't this be done via the environment or the FETCHCMD statements in
>> bitbake.conf?
>>
>> What really worries me here is that people keep adding 101 ways to use
>> different proxy setups. I'd really like one good way than 101 ways which
>> half work. All these different approaches and variables make the
>> codebase a nightmare to maintain and make it hard to explain to someone
>> how to setup things for their proxy.
>
> Actually, this way might make more sense... I'll test it out.

Something like:

FETCHCOMMAND_cvs_prepend = "socksify "

Seems to work quite well. How should we document this? I see:

https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Working_Behind_a_Network_Proxy

Or should we just add an example blurb to local.conf.sample? Or add it
to the I don't see much in the user manual. I think it might be
worthwhile to add section to the Poky Reference Manual.

-M