Re: [bitbake-devel] Support for git+https://foo.example.com like URIs

["Enrico Scholz" <enrico.scholz@sigma-chemnitz.de>]

"Richard Purdie" <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org> writes:

>> > PROJECT_BASE_URI = "git+https://foo.example.com/project"
>>
>> Is there some generic interest in this functionality so that I can
>> create and send a patch for bitbake?  Or is this too special and
>> people are happy with altering ${MIRROR}?
>
> I didn't (and don't) like writing special cases into general code.

mmmh... In my original report you complained that code is not generic
enough and works for git only.  Now, that is has been generalized, you
say it is too generic...


> My intent has always been (and still is) to see if a more generic
> solution is possible which not only addresses your use case but the
> ones others have as well.
>
> That will likely mean using the mirrors variable to remap things which
> will be slightly more complex but will also enable others.

I do not think, that bothering around with mirrors (or better PREMIRRORS)
is any helpful for this cases.  In 99% of cases, people want to set http://
or perhaps ssh:// as a transport protocol.

People want to completely rewrite an uri; they do not want to try another
one first and then another one.  This is nothing which can be solved by
mirrors; especially when you start to use AUTOREV.


Enrico