[yocto] Yocto git server via http and mirror tarballs

[Pascal Bach]

> I set in .gitconfig to always use https:// (don't forget 'git' at the end of path) instead git:// for yoctoproject url
>
> [url "https://git.yoctoproject.org/git/"]
>         insteadOf = git://git.yoctoproject.org/

I would pefer a solution that can be handled at the distro/site.conf level so that not very developer has to change their .gitconfig.
However this is a good work around, thanks.

>
> Kind regards,
> Bartosz Woronicz
> Engineer, Software Configuration (SCM)
> Nokia Networks - PL/Wroclaw
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: yocto-bounces at yoctoproject.org [mailto:yocto-bounces at yoctoproject.org] On Behalf Of Pascal Bach
> Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2016 12:51 PM
> To: yocto at yoctoproject.org
> Subject: [yocto] Yocto git server via http and mirror tarballs
>
> Hi
>
> Because of firewall restrictions I'm not always not able to access the git.yoctoproject.org via the git protocol but I'm required to use http.
>
> By default most of the recipes in Poky recipes use the git protocol not the http protocol. For example yocto-kernel-tools points to repositories "git://git.yoctoproject.org/yocto-kernel-tools" instead of "http://git.yoctoproject.org/git/yocto-kernel-tools".
>
> To work around this issue I added a mirror rules for rewriting the protocol like this:
>
> MIRRORS += "\
>     git://git.yoctoproject.org/.*                               git://git.yoctoproject.org/git/PATH;protocol=http \n \
>     "
>
> This seems to work and I'm able to fetch the sources even when git access is not possible.
>
> But when I then enable BB_GENERATE_MIRROR_TARBALLS = "1" I'm starting to get different tarball names depending on what protocol was used.
> For example "git2_git.yoctoproject.org.yocto-kernel-tools.git.tar.gz" vs "git2_git.yoctoproject.org.git.yocto-kernel-tools.git.tar.gz".
>
> I assume this happens because the first tarball was create while git access was possible, while the second one was created when only http was possible:
> git.yoctoproject.org/git => git.yoctoproject.org.git
> git.yoctoproject.org     => git.yoctoproject.org
>
> Is there any way to prevent the tarballs from having different names? For example derive the name always from the original URL not the mirror one?
>
> Or is there a better way to achieve what we are doing with MIRROR?
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Pascal