[yocto] Can't fetch git SRC_URI via HTTP

[Paul Eggleton]

On Wednesday 03 October 2012 07:04:06 Khem Raj wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 12:39 AM, Julian Scheel <julian at jusst.de> wrote:
> > 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;pro
> >> > >>> tocol=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=htt
> >> p;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.
> 
> I think Paul posted a patch where bitbake will spit out a good error
> message about such usage

Indeed, in fact coincidentally I was just trying to find this thread in my 
cluttered inbox in order to reply to it mentioning that :)

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre