[yocto] Configuring CVS to work through a proxy?
Darren Hart
dvhart at linux.intel.com
Mon Jun 27 20:50:17 PDT 2011
Hi Daryl,
I have to apologize for not responding earlier. If this is still an
issue for you, please respond to Richard's questions below and I'll pick
it up from here.
--
Darren
On 06/07/2011 01:20 PM, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-06-07 at 10:47 -0700, Daryl Spitzer 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
>
> What is odd/interesting here is that its trying the http address for the
> cache of this. If I click the above link, I do get the file after a
> warning about the anonymous user. I wonder if that username is upsetting
> wget somehow and breaking our mirroring infrastructure?
>
> "wget
> http://anonymous@autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/sources/config_cvs.sv.gnu.org__20080123.tar.gz"
>
> does seem to work here for me...
>
>> 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 is out-of-date since it talks about a patch, which—8 years ago at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?
>
> Good questions. I know we have people with this working behind firewalls
> but I'm not sure how they have it working...
>
> Does the wget command above work for you?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Richard
>
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Darren Hart
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