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

[Andreas Oberritter]

On 12/15/2010 05:35 PM, Chris Larson wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 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.
> 
> I wonder if the PREMIRRORS/MIRRORS handling is smart enough to let us
> use its regex for the components to replace protocol= in the url
> parameters.

This won't suffice, because svn may have different URLs for svn and
http, like in the discussed patch (branches vs. svn/branches):

-SRC_URI =
"svn://svn.eglibc.org/branches;module=${EGLIBC_BRANCH};proto=svn \
+SRC_URI =
"svn://svn.eglibc.org/svn/branches;module=${EGLIBC_BRANCH};proto=http \

Regards,
Andreas