Configuring CVS to work through a proxy?

Configuring CVS to work through a proxy?

[Daryl Spitzer]

I followed the "Building an Image" instructions in the Yocto Project
Quick Start (on a newly configured machine running Ubuntu 11.04 (64
bit), and got an error.  The contents of the failure logfile is:

NOTE: fetch http://anonymous@autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/sources/config_cvs.sv.gnu.org__20080123.tar.gz
NOTE: Fetch cvs://anonymous@cvs.sv.gnu.org/cvsroot/config;module=config;method=pserver;date=20080123
cvs [checkout aborted]: connect to cvs.sv.gnu.org(140.186.70.72):2401
failed: Connection timed out
ERROR: Function 'Fetcher failure for URL:
'cvs://anonymous@cvs.sv.gnu.org/cvsroot/config;module=config;method=pserver;date=20080123'.
Unable to fetch URL
cvs://anonymous@cvs.sv.gnu.org/cvsroot/config;module=config;method=pserver;date=20080123
from any source.' failed

I'm guessing this problem is because I haven't configured CVS to work
through my employer's HTTP proxy.

I did a search, and didn't find any definitive instructions for
configuring CVS.  (In fact, I found
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/kawa/2003-q3/msg00069.html, which I'm hoping
is out-of-date since it talks about a patch, which—8 years ago at
least—wasn't included in GNU CVS.  I did try defining the CVS_PROXY
environment variable as directed in that page just in case the CVS
build I'm using includes that patch—but I got the same build error.)

Can anyone point me to up-to-date instructions for configuring CVS to
work through a proxy?

And what command-line can I use to test it?

--
Daryl

Re: Configuring CVS to work through a proxy?

[Daryl Spitzer]

I found https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Working_Behind_a_Network_Proxy
(after doing a search for "yocto cvs proxy").  My compliments on the
thoroughness of your documentation.  (I shouldn't have assumed this
wasn't already documented).  It looks like these instructions will
solve my problem.

--
Daryl


On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 10:47 AM, Daryl Spitzer <daryl.spitzer@gmail.com> wrote:
> I followed the "Building an Image" instructions in the Yocto Project
> Quick Start (on a newly configured machine running Ubuntu 11.04 (64
> bit), and got an error.  The contents of the failure logfile is:
>
> NOTE: fetch http://anonymous@autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/sources/config_cvs.sv.gnu.org__20080123.tar.gz
> NOTE: Fetch cvs://anonymous@cvs.sv.gnu.org/cvsroot/config;module=config;method=pserver;date=20080123
> cvs [checkout aborted]: connect to cvs.sv.gnu.org(140.186.70.72):2401
> failed: Connection timed out
> ERROR: Function 'Fetcher failure for URL:
> 'cvs://anonymous@cvs.sv.gnu.org/cvsroot/config;module=config;method=pserver;date=20080123'.
> Unable to fetch URL
> cvs://anonymous@cvs.sv.gnu.org/cvsroot/config;module=config;method=pserver;date=20080123
> from any source.' failed
>
> I'm guessing this problem is because I haven't configured CVS to work
> through my employer's HTTP proxy.
>
> I did a search, and didn't find any definitive instructions for
> configuring CVS.  (In fact, I found
> http://www.cygwin.com/ml/kawa/2003-q3/msg00069.html, which I'm hoping
> is out-of-date since it talks about a patch, which—8 years ago at
> least—wasn't included in GNU CVS.  I did try defining the CVS_PROXY
> environment variable as directed in that page just in case the CVS
> build I'm using includes that patch—but I got the same build error.)
>
> Can anyone point me to up-to-date instructions for configuring CVS to
> work through a proxy?
>
> And what command-line can I use to test it?
>
> --
> Daryl
>

Re: Configuring CVS to work through a proxy?

[Richard Purdie]

On Tue, 2011-06-07 at 10:47 -0700, Daryl Spitzer wrote:
> I followed the "Building an Image" instructions in the Yocto Project
> Quick Start (on a newly configured machine running Ubuntu 11.04 (64
> bit), and got an error.  The contents of the failure logfile is:
> 
> NOTE: fetch http://anonymous@autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/sources/config_cvs.sv.gnu.org__20080123.tar.gz

What is odd/interesting here is that its trying the http address for the
cache of this. If I click the above link, I do get the file after a
warning about the anonymous user. I wonder if that username is upsetting
wget somehow and breaking our mirroring infrastructure?

"wget
http://anonymous@autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/sources/config_cvs.sv.gnu.org__20080123.tar.gz"

does seem to work here for me...

> NOTE: Fetch cvs://anonymous@cvs.sv.gnu.org/cvsroot/config;module=config;method=pserver;date=20080123
> cvs [checkout aborted]: connect to cvs.sv.gnu.org(140.186.70.72):2401
> failed: Connection timed out
> ERROR: Function 'Fetcher failure for URL:
> 'cvs://anonymous@cvs.sv.gnu.org/cvsroot/config;module=config;method=pserver;date=20080123'.
> Unable to fetch URL
> cvs://anonymous@cvs.sv.gnu.org/cvsroot/config;module=config;method=pserver;date=20080123
> from any source.' failed
> 
> I'm guessing this problem is because I haven't configured CVS to work
> through my employer's HTTP proxy.
> 
> I did a search, and didn't find any definitive instructions for
> configuring CVS.  (In fact, I found
> http://www.cygwin.com/ml/kawa/2003-q3/msg00069.html, which I'm hoping
> is out-of-date since it talks about a patch, which—8 years ago at
> least—wasn't included in GNU CVS.  I did try defining the CVS_PROXY
> environment variable as directed in that page just in case the CVS
> build I'm using includes that patch—but I got the same build error.)
> 
> Can anyone point me to up-to-date instructions for configuring CVS to
> work through a proxy?

Good questions. I know we have people with this working behind firewalls
but I'm not sure how they have it working...

Does the wget command above work for you?

Cheers,

Richard

Re: Configuring CVS to work through a proxy?

[Darren Hart]

Hi Daryl,

I have to apologize for not responding earlier. If this is still an
issue for you, please respond to Richard's questions below and I'll pick
it up from here.

--
Darren

On 06/07/2011 01:20 PM, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-06-07 at 10:47 -0700, Daryl Spitzer wrote:
>> I followed the "Building an Image" instructions in the Yocto Project
>> Quick Start (on a newly configured machine running Ubuntu 11.04 (64
>> bit), and got an error.  The contents of the failure logfile is:
>>
>> NOTE: fetch http://anonymous@autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/sources/config_cvs.sv.gnu.org__20080123.tar.gz
> 
> What is odd/interesting here is that its trying the http address for the
> cache of this. If I click the above link, I do get the file after a
> warning about the anonymous user. I wonder if that username is upsetting
> wget somehow and breaking our mirroring infrastructure?
> 
> "wget
> http://anonymous@autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/sources/config_cvs.sv.gnu.org__20080123.tar.gz"
> 
> does seem to work here for me...
> 
>> NOTE: Fetch cvs://anonymous@cvs.sv.gnu.org/cvsroot/config;module=config;method=pserver;date=20080123
>> cvs [checkout aborted]: connect to cvs.sv.gnu.org(140.186.70.72):2401
>> failed: Connection timed out
>> ERROR: Function 'Fetcher failure for URL:
>> 'cvs://anonymous@cvs.sv.gnu.org/cvsroot/config;module=config;method=pserver;date=20080123'.
>> Unable to fetch URL
>> cvs://anonymous@cvs.sv.gnu.org/cvsroot/config;module=config;method=pserver;date=20080123
>> from any source.' failed
>>
>> I'm guessing this problem is because I haven't configured CVS to work
>> through my employer's HTTP proxy.
>>
>> I did a search, and didn't find any definitive instructions for
>> configuring CVS.  (In fact, I found
>> http://www.cygwin.com/ml/kawa/2003-q3/msg00069.html, which I'm hoping
>> is out-of-date since it talks about a patch, which—8 years ago at
>> least—wasn't included in GNU CVS.  I did try defining the CVS_PROXY
>> environment variable as directed in that page just in case the CVS
>> build I'm using includes that patch—but I got the same build error.)
>>
>> Can anyone point me to up-to-date instructions for configuring CVS to
>> work through a proxy?
> 
> Good questions. I know we have people with this working behind firewalls
> but I'm not sure how they have it working...
> 
> Does the wget command above work for you?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Richard
> 
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Darren Hart
Intel Open Source Technology Center
Yocto Project - Linux Kernel