[yocto] Raspberry Pi do_fetch failure

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Wed, 16 Jan 2013, Alex J Lennon wrote:

> On 16/01/2013 05:45, Ed Nelson wrote:
> > I finally got a response back from github ....
> >
> > Hi Ed,
> >
> > We tracked the issue down to an internal network timeout (it only happens
> > when `--quiet` is used, because git is silent on the network while preparing
> > the clone in that case). We've bumped up the limit, and you should be able
> > to clone now. Please let us know if you have any more trouble.
> >
> > ....
> >
> > I have not tried it yet but hopefully they fixed the problem
>
> I've just tried it and it is still failing -
>
> WARNING: Failed to fetch URL
> git://github.com/raspberrypi/linux.git;protocol=git;branch=rpi-3.2.27,
> attempting MIRRORS if available
> ERROR: Fetcher failure: Fetch command failed with exit code 128, output:
> Cloning into bare repository
> '/data_drive/RPiMonoSmoke/yoctoProject/raspberryPiBuild/downloads/git2/github.com.raspberrypi.linux.git'...
>
> fatal: read error: Connection timed out
> fatal: early EOF
> fatal: index-pack failed
>
> ERROR: Function failed: Fetcher failure for URL:
> 'git://github.com/raspberrypi/linux.git;protocol=git;branch=rpi-3.2.27'.
> Unable to fetch URL from any source.

  github has been particularly annoying with respect to this lately.
my workaround is to simply clone what you need manually, then tweak
the recipe thusly to point at your local repo:

SRCREV = "10182a3bc434b27740f81c2b836a1af943060241"
SRC_URI =
"git:///home/rpjday/oe/dist/t/linux;protocol=git;branch=rpi-3.2.27 \
          "

  yes, it's hacky, but it lets me get back to work.  sure be nice when
this silliness is resolved.

rday

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