[oe] [PATCH] eglibc: use HTTP for svn checkout

[Khem Raj]

On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 8:30 AM, Ryan D Phillips
<ryan_d_phillips at dell.com> wrote:
> On 12/13/2010 2:00 PM, Khem Raj wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 9:13 AM, Ryan D Phillips
>> <ryan_d_phillips at dell.com>  wrote:
>>>
>>>  SVN over HTTP is a more reliable transport for developers behind
>>> restrictive
>>> proxies.
>>>
>>
>> and how much slower/faster is it when compared to svn protocol ?
>>
>
> The speed depends on which subversion client backend someone is using. HTTP
> will be slower than using the svn native protocol, but the serf subversion
> backend will perform parallel fetches.
>
> I would like to see this patch get into the OE tree to make the tree more
> robust to proxies. Currently, this is the only customization I need for the
> projects I work on.

Yes your pie :) but this is not the only problem I guess in OE with
regard to fetching behind the proxies.
you can also use a appending mechanism in your layer and make this
change without changing OE at all


>
> Regards,
> Ryan Phillips
>