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

[Khem Raj]

On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 8:55 AM, Tom Rini <tom_rini at mentor.com> wrote:
> On 12/14/2010 09:30 AM, Ryan D Phillips 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.
>
> Note that if you use a mirror site with the SVN checkout archive in it, you
> won't try and do the fetch at all.  This may or may not be applicable to
> your case.  For your case I think what we really want is a way to globally
> toggle the svn protocol argument.

yes that would be something more useful. I guess we could add it to
all SCM fetching recipes.

>
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