[yocto] Yocto git server via http and mirror tarballs

[Woronicz, Bartosz ( NSN - PL/Wroclaw)]

Maybe try to prepend PREMIRRORS , then possibly everytime it will use 
HTTP/HTTPS protocol instead git (because it will be the very first match).

http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/current/mega-manual/mega-manual.html#var-PREMIRRORS

Kind regards,
Bartosz Woronicz
Engineer, Software Configuration (SCM)
Nokia Networks - PL/Wroclaw

On 15.06.2016 13:33, Pascal Bach wrote:
>> 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