[OE-core] Building behind a firewall/proxy

[Joshua Lock]

On Tue, 2011-06-28 at 14:46 -0700, Tom Rini wrote:
> 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.
> 

Noted, thanks Tom.

Joshua
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Joshua Lock
        Yocto Project "Johannes factotum"
        Intel Open Source Technology Centre