[yocto] Can't fetch git SRC_URI via HTTP

[Julian Scheel]

Am Dienstag, den 02.10.2012, 23:52 +0200 schrieb Martin Jansa:
> On Tue, Oct 02, 2012 at 11:38:08PM +0200, Julian Scheel 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.
> 
> That's what protocol param does;
> 
> Change that to
> git://dev.omapzoom.org/pub/scm/integration/kernel-ubuntu.git;protocol=http;branch=ti-ubuntu-3.1-1282
> and you'll get git fetch over http protocol.

Nice to know. Actually when I had this issue I tried it the other way
round. Use a http url and set protocol to git...
Is this noted somewhere in the documentation? I could not find it. I
think it would be worth mentioning it in the yocto reference manual as
this seems to be a quite common thing to struggle with.

-Julian


>  
> > -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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> > > Martin 'JaMa' Jansa     jabber: Martin.Jansa at gmail.com
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