[OE-core] Building behind a firewall/proxy

[Tom Rini]

On 06/28/2011 01:14 PM, Joshua Lock wrote:
> All,
> 
> For the Yocto 1.1 release we want to ease the pain of getting set up to
> build behind a firewall.
> 
> I have a series of patches under development to run a one hit sanity
> test which tries to verify the user can fetch and in the case of failure
> point the user to a wiki page where we'd document common causes of fetch
> failures.
> 
> We're also going to look at the site.conf file, which can be used to
> specify proxy settings and other site specific settings such MIRRORS,
> and ensure that it can easily be edited to help people get set up.
> 
> It'd be great if people who operate behind a proxy/firewall can help us
> document the steps they had to take to work around this.
> 
> Further if you have other ideas as to how we can help make this process
> less painful please let us know.

Is SOCKS5_PASSWD SOCKS5_USER in the default BB_ENV_EXTRAWHITE list atm?
 If not, it needs to be.

-- 
Tom Rini
Mentor Graphics Corporation