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

[Chris Larson]

On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 9:43 AM, Andreas Oberritter
<obi at opendreambox.org> wrote:
> 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
>
> \

And of course, changes to the url can also be done via PREMIRRORS.
You'd just have the first one a specific entry to redirect eglibc, and
the second a fallback for non-specific.  Of course, there's nothing
wrong with using bbappend/amend.inc for this, just another
possibility.
-- 
Christopher Larson
clarson at kergoth dot com
Founder - BitBake, OpenEmbedded, OpenZaurus
Maintainer - Tslib
Senior Software Engineer, Mentor Graphics