[yocto] Configuring CVS to work through a proxy?

[Daryl Spitzer]

I found https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Working_Behind_a_Network_Proxy
(after doing a search for "yocto cvs proxy").  My compliments on the
thoroughness of your documentation.  (I shouldn't have assumed this
wasn't already documented).  It looks like these instructions will
solve my problem.

--
Daryl


On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 10:47 AM, Daryl Spitzer <daryl.spitzer at gmail.com> wrote:
> I followed the "Building an Image" instructions in the Yocto Project
> Quick Start (on a newly configured machine running Ubuntu 11.04 (64
> bit), and got an error.  The contents of the failure logfile is:
>
> NOTE: fetch http://anonymous@autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/sources/config_cvs.sv.gnu.org__20080123.tar.gz
> NOTE: Fetch cvs://anonymous@cvs.sv.gnu.org/cvsroot/config;module=config;method=pserver;date=20080123
> cvs [checkout aborted]: connect to cvs.sv.gnu.org(140.186.70.72):2401
> failed: Connection timed out
> ERROR: Function 'Fetcher failure for URL:
> 'cvs://anonymous@cvs.sv.gnu.org/cvsroot/config;module=config;method=pserver;date=20080123'.
> Unable to fetch URL
> cvs://anonymous@cvs.sv.gnu.org/cvsroot/config;module=config;method=pserver;date=20080123
> from any source.' failed
>
> I'm guessing this problem is because I haven't configured CVS to work
> through my employer's HTTP proxy.
>
> I did a search, and didn't find any definitive instructions for
> configuring CVS.  (In fact, I found
> http://www.cygwin.com/ml/kawa/2003-q3/msg00069.html, which I'm hoping
> is out-of-date since it talks about a patch, which—8 years ago at
> least—wasn't included in GNU CVS.  I did try defining the CVS_PROXY
> environment variable as directed in that page just in case the CVS
> build I'm using includes that patch—but I got the same build error.)
>
> Can anyone point me to up-to-date instructions for configuring CVS to
> work through a proxy?
>
> And what command-line can I use to test it?
>
> --
> Daryl
>