[meta-freescale] problems with Getting started with Yocto on Wandboard

[Nikolay Dimitrov]

Hi Matthias,

On 11/10/2014 11:19 AM, Matthias.Heise at atlas-elektronik.com wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I’m new to yocto and tried following the above mentioned “getting
> started” and I’m now running into the problem that I can’t get the linux
> source when running bitbake. I get following error:
>
> NOTE: Preparing runqueue
>
> NOTE: Executing SetScene Tasks
>
> NOTE: Executing RunQueue Tasks
>
> WARNING: Failed to fetch URL
> git://github.com/wandboard-org/linux.git;branch=wandboard_imx_3.10.17_1.0.1_ga,
> attempting MIRRORS if available
>
> ERROR: Fetcher failure: Fetch command failed with exit code 128, output:
>
> Cloning into bare repository
> '/home/theuser/fsl-community-bsp/downloads//git2/github.com.wandboard-org.linux.git'...
>
> fatal: unable to connect to github.com:
>
> github.com[0: 192.30.252.130]: errno=Connection timed out
>
> ERROR: Function failed: Fetcher failure for URL:
> 'git://github.com/wandboard-org/linux.git;branch=wandboard_imx_3.10.17_1.0.1_ga'.
> Unable to fetch URL from any source.
>
> ERROR: Logfile of failure stored in:
> /home/theuser/fsl-community-bsp/build/tmp/work/wandboard_quad-poky-linux-gnueabi/linux-wandboard/3.10.17-r0/temp/log.do_fetch.30595
>
> ERROR: Task 73
> (/home/theuser/fsl-community-bsp/sources/meta-fsl-arm-extra/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-wandboard_3.10.17.bb,
> do_fetch) failed with exit code '1'
>
> I can download the zipped sources or clone the git repo manually (with
> http:// not “git://” link, probably due to company firewall) but I can’t
> find the spot where to tell bitbake that it should skip the do_fetch for
> this.
>
> How can I solve this ?

git config --global url."https://".insteadOf git://

Regards,
Nikolay