Re: Building behind a firewall/proxy

[Joshua Lock <josh@linux.intel.com>]

On Tue, 2011-06-28 at 22:20 +0200, Koen Kooi wrote:
> Op 28 jun 2011, om 22:14 heeft Joshua Lock het volgende geschreven:
> 
> > All,
> > 
> > For the Yocto 1.1 release we want to ease the pain of getting set up to
> > build behind a firewall.
> > 
> > I have a series of patches under development to run a one hit sanity
> > test which tries to verify the user can fetch and in the case of failure
> > point the user to a wiki page where we'd document common causes of fetch
> > failures.
> > 
> > We're also going to look at the site.conf file, which can be used to
> > specify proxy settings and other site specific settings such MIRRORS,
> > and ensure that it can easily be edited to help people get set up.
> > 
> > It'd be great if people who operate behind a proxy/firewall can help us
> > document the steps they had to take to work around this.
> > 
> > Further if you have other ideas as to how we can help make this process
> > less painful please let us know.
> 
> This is what I'm using inside TI: http://git.angstrom-distribution.org/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/setup-scripts/tree/oebb.sh?h=oe-core
> 
> It grew organically, so grepping for 'proxy' is your best bet :)

Thanks Koen, a useful reference.

Joshua
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Joshua Lock
        Yocto Project "Johannes factotum"
        Intel Open Source Technology Centre