[yocto] Can't fetch git SRC_URI via HTTP

[Khem Raj]

On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 2:38 PM, Julian Scheel <julian at jusst.de> wrote:
>
> 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.

bitbake fetchers deduce the fetching method from xxx:// and whatever
protocol that fetch method's defaults are is used unless protocol=
parameter is specified. Its not 1 to 1 copy
of what you would do on cmdline manually although it seems very close to that.

>
> -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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