[bitbake-devel] [PATCH] bb.fetch.git: add a way to avoid git protocol, and force http or https mirrors

[Andre McCurdy]

On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 6:50 AM, Richard Purdie
<richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 2016-05-31 at 15:18 +0200, fabien.proriolpatch at kazoe.org wrote:
>> From: Fabien Proriol <fabien.proriol at jdsu.com>
>>
>> This patch add the possibility to bitbake to avoid git protocol to
>> fetch sources.
>> This is usefull in some network with firewall blocking git port.
>>
>> When BB_GIT_PROTOCOL_FIREWALL is set, the PROTOCOL_MIRRORS table is
>> used to find the new protocol (http or https) and the new host (if
>> different) to used.
>>
>> BB_GIT_PROTOCOL_FIREWALL can also contains a list of host accepted.
>> This is usefull for exemple, if we use local git repository inside
>> the network.
>>
>> Exemple usage:
>>     # Avoid all git protocol
>>     BB_GIT_PROTOCOL_FIREWALL = "1"
>>
>>     # Avoid git protocol, except for srv1 and srv2 in local network
>>     BB_GIT_PROTOCOL_FIREWALL = "srv1.mydomain.com;srv2.mydomain.com"
>
> Why not use the more generic MIRRORS and PREMIRRORS for this? If they
> can't support this, we likely should figure out a way to make them work
> for it rather than adding new fetcher specific variables.

Sorry for resurrecting such an old thread, but I'm wondering if
there's been any more work on an upstreamable solution?

The problem being that recipes which define SRC_URI to git://* with
protocol=git (or with protocol unspecified, since git is the default)
fail during fetching for users working behind a firewall which blocks
the native git protocol.

Although MIRRORS and PREMIRRORS allow mapping from one host to another
there's no support for mapping one git fetch protocol to another and
it looks like extending the MIRRORS syntax to support that would be a
non-trivial change...

> Cheers,
>
> Richard
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