[help] openembedded tarball sources on HTTP

[help] openembedded tarball sources on HTTP

[RK Raggit]

Hi there,

I am building openembedded recipes but i am behind a proxy that only allows
http accesses and blocks cvs,svn ports.

I would like to know where i can obtain pristine OE package (tarball)
sources from a HTTP link. I tried

http://oesources.org/source/current

...but that link does not work. Could someone please guide me the correct
link ? I will update my CVS_TARBALL_STASH
variable with this link.

Thanks
RK

Re: [help] openembedded tarball sources on HTTP

[RK Raggit]

anyone with some idea on this .. ? sorry for pushing , but i am kind of
evaluating OE and would like to know whether this is possible at all ?

...unblocking cvs,svn ports is defnitely not an option for me.

--RK

On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 4:51 PM, RK Raggit <rk.raggit@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> I am building openembedded recipes but i am behind a proxy that only allows
> http accesses and blocks cvs,svn ports.
>
> I would like to know where i can obtain pristine OE package (tarball)
> sources from a HTTP link. I tried
>
> http://oesources.org/source/current
>
> ...but that link does not work. Could someone please guide me the correct
> link ? I will update my CVS_TARBALL_STASH
> variable with this link.
>
> Thanks
> RK
>
>
>

Re: [help] openembedded tarball sources on HTTP

[Holger Hans Peter Freyther]

On Monday 26 October 2009 11:25:09 RK Raggit wrote:
> anyone with some idea on this .. ? sorry for pushing , but i am kind of
> evaluating OE and would like to know whether this is possible at all ?
> 
> ...unblocking cvs,svn ports is defnitely not an option for me.

then find a better place to work at. If your company does not allow you to do 
your work something is wrong with the company.

Your options are (I have done most of them):

	1.) Use bitbake -cfetchall WHAT_YOU_WANT 
		1.1.0) Do it at home and take the result to the office
		1.1.1) Rent a separate DSL line for your office and download yourself
                         (obviously never be connected to both networks 
                          *giggle*)
                1.1.2) Use your UMTS dataplan to download the source
		1.1.3) Go to a public hotspot to download
		1.1.4) Rent a hotel room on company cost and download
                          from there.
	2.) Switch recipes that use CVS/SVN/GIT to the closest release, you
              can do this by toggling PREFERRED_VERSION of these recipes
	3.)  You can ask someone to send you a tape with the sources.


In general with Free Software you will have to have the real internet to be 
able to work.

love
	z.

Re: [help] openembedded tarball sources on HTTP

[GNUtoo]

On Mon, 2009-10-26 at 11:44 +0100, Holger Hans Peter Freyther wrote:
> 	3.)  You can ask someone to send you a tape with the sources.
lol...

Denis.

Re: [help] openembedded tarball sources on HTTP

[Philip Balister]

On 10/26/2009 06:25 AM, RK Raggit wrote:
> anyone with some idea on this .. ? sorry for pushing , but i am kind of
> evaluating OE and would like to know whether this is possible at all ?
>
> ...unblocking cvs,svn ports is defnitely not an option for me.

One possible business associated with OE would be maintaining a server 
accessible via http that collected all the needed sources and mae them 
available to people with difficult firewall situations. I'm not sure how 
to market such a thing though.

Philip

>
> --RK
>
> On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 4:51 PM, RK Raggit<rk.raggit@gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>> Hi there,
>>
>> I am building openembedded recipes but i am behind a proxy that only allows
>> http accesses and blocks cvs,svn ports.
>>
>> I would like to know where i can obtain pristine OE package (tarball)
>> sources from a HTTP link. I tried
>>
>> http://oesources.org/source/current
>>
>> ...but that link does not work. Could someone please guide me the correct
>> link ? I will update my CVS_TARBALL_STASH
>> variable with this link.
>>
>> Thanks
>> RK
>>
>>
>>
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Re: [help] openembedded tarball sources on HTTP

[Koen Kooi]

On 26-10-09 13:25, Philip Balister wrote:
> On 10/26/2009 06:25 AM, RK Raggit wrote:
>> anyone with some idea on this .. ? sorry for pushing , but i am kind of
>> evaluating OE and would like to know whether this is possible at all ?
>>
>> ...unblocking cvs,svn ports is defnitely not an option for me.
>
> One possible business associated with OE would be maintaining a server
> accessible via http that collected all the needed sources and mae them
> available to people with difficult firewall situations. I'm not sure how
> to market such a thing though.

You mean like angstrom does now with its sourcemirror?

regards,

Koen

Re: [help] openembedded tarball sources on HTTP

[Phil Blundell]

I don't think anybody is publishing a comprehensive set of SCM-derived
source tarballs.  As you say below, oesources.org was the closest to
this but, since its demise, I don't think anybody else has stepped
forwards to fill the vacancy.  Some individual DISTROs do mirror the
sources that they are using, and you might like to check whether your
distro falls into that category, but I don't believe there is any
cross-distribution source mirror at present.  

Indeed, mirroring a full set of tarballs for every conceivable
SRCDATE/SRCREV would be a somewhat daunting undertaking: a more feasible
option would probably be to do an svn-over-http kind of proxy thing,
where a request for something like
http://svnproxy.oe.org/checkout?uri=svn://eleet.org/repository&rev=1234
would run the checkout in real time and hand you back a tarball.  If you
wanted to implement such a thing then it might be feasible to get it
hosted on one of the oe.org machines.

However, most/all recipes do offer at least one released tarball which
you should be able to use rather than checking out from SCM every time.
If you find a particular package whose sources are simply not available
any other way than CVS or SVN then post the details here and someone may
be able to point you at a tarball.

p.

On Mon, 2009-10-26 at 15:55 +0530, RK Raggit wrote:
> anyone with some idea on this .. ? sorry for pushing , but i am kind of
> evaluating OE and would like to know whether this is possible at all ?
> 
> ...unblocking cvs,svn ports is defnitely not an option for me.
> 
> --RK
> 
> On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 4:51 PM, RK Raggit <rk.raggit@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi there,
> >
> > I am building openembedded recipes but i am behind a proxy that only allows
> > http accesses and blocks cvs,svn ports.
> >
> > I would like to know where i can obtain pristine OE package (tarball)
> > sources from a HTTP link. I tried
> >
> > http://oesources.org/source/current
> >
> > ...but that link does not work. Could someone please guide me the correct
> > link ? I will update my CVS_TARBALL_STASH
> > variable with this link.
> >
> > Thanks
> > RK
> >
> >
> >
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> Openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org
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Re: [help] openembedded tarball sources on HTTP

[RK Raggit]

Thanks for your reply Phil.

I set my ~/.subversion file with http proxy information and when i tried the
following, it succeeded -

#> svn co http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk subversion

Based on this i infer that my SVN ports are not blocked by the proxy.

Next i upgraded to cvs-1.12.10 which has support for http proxy tunnelling.
When i ran this ...

#> ./usr/bin/cvs '-d:pserver;proxy=xx.xx.xx.com
;proxyport=8080:anonymous@cvs.sv.gnu.org:/cvsroot/config' co -D "20050701
UTC" config

the command returned with this error "cvs [login aborted]: proxy server
xx.xx.xx.com:8080 does not support http tunnelling"

So i infer CVS-over-http tunnelling is not possible on my network ...but SVN
works directly. So thats one good news and one bad !

I will try other options mentioned -- using sources of available
distributions and using released tarballs (and also pursue my case with the
network admin ;) )

--RK


On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 6:49 PM, Phil Blundell <pb@reciva.com> wrote:

> I don't think anybody is publishing a comprehensive set of SCM-derived
> source tarballs.  As you say below, oesources.org was the closest to
> this but, since its demise, I don't think anybody else has stepped
> forwards to fill the vacancy.  Some individual DISTROs do mirror the
> sources that they are using, and you might like to check whether your
> distro falls into that category, but I don't believe there is any
> cross-distribution source mirror at present.
>
> Indeed, mirroring a full set of tarballs for every conceivable
> SRCDATE/SRCREV would be a somewhat daunting undertaking: a more feasible
> option would probably be to do an svn-over-http kind of proxy thing,
> where a request for something like
> http://svnproxy.oe.org/checkout?uri=svn://eleet.org/repository&rev=1234
> would run the checkout in real time and hand you back a tarball.  If you
> wanted to implement such a thing then it might be feasible to get it
> hosted on one of the oe.org machines.
>
> However, most/all recipes do offer at least one released tarball which
> you should be able to use rather than checking out from SCM every time.
> If you find a particular package whose sources are simply not available
> any other way than CVS or SVN then post the details here and someone may
> be able to point you at a tarball.
>
> p.
>
> On Mon, 2009-10-26 at 15:55 +0530, RK Raggit wrote:
> > anyone with some idea on this .. ? sorry for pushing , but i am kind of
> > evaluating OE and would like to know whether this is possible at all ?
> >
> > ...unblocking cvs,svn ports is defnitely not an option for me.
> >
> > --RK
> >
> > On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 4:51 PM, RK Raggit <rk.raggit@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi there,
> > >
> > > I am building openembedded recipes but i am behind a proxy that only
> allows
> > > http accesses and blocks cvs,svn ports.
> > >
> > > I would like to know where i can obtain pristine OE package (tarball)
> > > sources from a HTTP link. I tried
> > >
> > > http://oesources.org/source/current
> > >
> > > ...but that link does not work. Could someone please guide me the
> correct
> > > link ? I will update my CVS_TARBALL_STASH
> > > variable with this link.
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > > RK
> > >
> > >
> > >
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