[yocto] Can't fetch git SRC_URI via HTTP

[Julian Scheel]

Am 02.10.2012 um 23:22 schrieb Martin Jansa <martin.jansa at gmail.com>:

> On Tue, Oct 02, 2012 at 05:17:23PM -0400, Evade Flow wrote:
>> I'm trying to build core-image-sato for my Pandaboard ES, following the
>> instructions posted here:
>> 
>>  - http://maniacbug.wordpress.com/2012/08/03/pandayocto/
>> 
>> Thus, my OE build configuration looks like this:
>> 
>>> OE Build Configuration:
>>> BB_VERSION        = "1.15.2"
>>> TARGET_ARCH       = "arm"
>>> TARGET_OS         = "linux-gnueabi"
>>> MACHINE           = "pandaboard"
>>> DISTRO            = "poky"
>>> DISTRO_VERSION    = "1.2.1"
>>> TUNE_FEATURES     = "armv7a vfp neon cortexa9"
>>> TARGET_FPU        = "vfp-neon"
>>> meta
>>> meta-yocto        = "denzil:65ffa7395055f7e012cb973f63f92380828eed0d"
>>> meta-ti           = "(nobranch):30fb40ebc13614a74c2e237927c60ac43e01d1bc"
>> 
>> I have these lines in my .gitconfig:
>> 
>>> [http]
>>>    proxy=http://user:passwd@usaprox.lightning.com:8080
>> 
>> so I'd expect URLs like this one (from the meta-ti layer's
>> linux-omap4_3.1.0.bb recipe) to work fine:
>> 
>>> SRC_URI = "http://dev.omapzoom.org/pub/scm/integration/kernel-ubuntu.git;protocol=git;branch=ti-ubuntu-3.1-1282 \
> 
> This url seems wrong, it should start with git:// if you want to clone
> git repo.
> 
> Because it starts with http:// normal fetch (like wget) was used so it
> downloaded probably some http code (see that kernel-ubuntu.git file)
> instead of any relevant source.

I ran into the same issue a few days ago. It seems yocto only supports git fetch
through servers providing the repositories through the git protocol. A way to use
git repositories which are provided through http or https would be quite a good
thing to have.

-Julian

> 
>>>           file://0001-Makefile.fwinst-fix-install-breakage-for-FW-images-r.patch \
>>>           file://defconfig \
>>>           "
>> 
>> From what I can tell, though, bitbake isn't handling this SRC_URI
>> correctly, and I get:
>> 
>>> ERROR: Command Error: exit status: 1  Output:
>>> Applying patch 0001-Makefile.fwinst-fix-install-breakage-for-FW-images-r.patch
>>> patching file scripts/Makefile.fwinst
>>> Hunk #1 FAILED at 27.
>>> 1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- rejects in file scripts/Makefile.fwinst
>>> Patch 0001-Makefile.fwinst-fix-install-breakage-for-FW-images-r.patch does not apply (enforce with -f)
>>> ERROR: Function failed: patch_do_patch
>> 
>> If I examine the folder:
>> 
>>  build/tmp/work/pandaboard-poky-linux-gnueabi/linux-omap4-3.1.0-r0
>> 
>> I see that it contains no source code. It does, however, contain a file
>> named 'kernel-ubuntu.git', whose content is exactly the same as you'd
>> get if you typed:
>> 
>>  wget http://dev.omapzoom.org/pub/scm/integration/kernel-ubuntu.git
>> 
>> This seems like a bug, possibly related to one of these:
>> 
>>  - http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3119
>>  - http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3175
>> 
>> 
>> Maybe this has been fixed since denzil, but... everything I read about
>> the current state of support for the Pandaboard suggests sticking with
>> denzil/gcc 4.6. Is there some workaround I can use to get past this
>> error?  Also, assuming these instructions worked for the author of the
>> original blog post, I wonder what the difference is with my setup.
>> 
>> Here are my mods to conf/local.conf, in case it's helpful:
>> 
>>> MACHINE = "pandaboard"
>>> BBMASK = "meta-ti/recipes-misc"
>>> PACKAGE_CLASSES = "package_ipk"
>>> CONNECTIVITY_CHECK_URIS=""
>>> BB_GENERATE_MIRROR_TARBALLS = "1"
>>> SOURCE_MIRROR_URL ?= "file:///home/evadeflow/projects/poky-mirror/"
>>> INHERIT += "own-mirrors"
>> 
>> And this is my bblayers.conf:
>> 
>>> # LAYER_CONF_VERSION is increased each time build/conf/bblayers.conf
>>> # changes incompatibly
>>> LCONF_VERSION = "4"
>>> 
>>> BBFILES ?= ""
>>> BBLAYERS ?= " \
>>>  /home/evadeflow/projects/poky-git/meta \
>>>  /home/evadeflow/projects/poky-git/meta-yocto \
>>>  /home/evadeflow/projects/poky-git/meta-ti \
>>>  "
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