[yocto] Can't fetch git SRC_URI via HTTP

[Evade Flow]

> I think Paul posted a patch where bitbake will spit out a good error
> message about such usage

Oops, better have a look at:

  - http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3214

I just created this... :-%


On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 10:07 AM, Paul Eggleton
<paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> 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
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