From: Thomas Perale via buildroot <buildroot@buildroot.org>
To: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Cc: Thomas Perale <thomas.perale@mind.be>, buildroot@buildroot.org
Subject: Re: [Buildroot] [PATCH] utils/generate-cyclonedx: fixup scp-style git sites
Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2026 11:39:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260620094024.28845-1-thomas.perale@mind.be> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260619090027.3145553-1-peter@korsgaard.com>
Hi Peter,
In reply of:
> Commit e8c54ffb3d ("utils/generate-cyclonedx: generate vcs
> externalReferences for source repos") added externalReferences to the source
> code of packages.
>
> This unfortunately causes issues with packages (in br2-external) fetching
> from git using the scp-like syntax, E.G.:
>
> FOO_SITE_METHOD = git
> FOO_SITE = git@github.com:<project>/<repo>.git
>
> Which ends up in the SBOM as:
>
> [
> {
> "type": "vcs",
> "url": "git@github.com:<project>/<repo>.git",
> "comment": "git repository"
> }
> ]
>
> This (correctly) causes Dependency track to reject the SBOM import with:
>
> {
> "status": 400,
> "title": "The uploaded BOM is invalid",
> "detail": "Schema validation failed",
> "errors": [
> "$.components[2].externalReferences[0].url: does not match the iri-reference pattern must be a valid RFC 3987 IRI-reference",
> "$.components[2].externalReferences[0].url: does not match the iri-reference pattern must be a valid RFC 3987 IRI-reference",
> "$.components[2].externalReferences[0].url: does not match the regex pattern ^urn:cdx:[0-9a-f]{8}-[0-9a-f]{4}-[0-9a-f]{4}-[0-9a-f]{4}-[0-9a-f]{12}/[1-9][0-9]*$",
> ]
> }
>
> The CycloneDX spec indeed requires a URI:
>
> The URI (URL or URN) to the external reference. External references are
> URIs and therefore can accept any URL scheme including https (RFC-7230),
> mailto (RFC-2368), tel (RFC-3966), and dns (RFC-4501)
>
> https://cyclonedx.org/docs/1.6/json/#metadata_tools_oneOf_i0_components_items_externalReferences_items_url
>
> The user@host:project/repo.git is a git-specific shorthand for a git-over-ssh URL. From man git-clone:
>
> Git supports ssh, git, http, and https protocols (in addition, ftp and ftps
> can be used for fetching, but this is inefficient and deprecated; do not use
> them).
>
> The native transport (i.e. git:// URL) does no authentication and should
> be used with caution on unsecured networks.
>
> The following syntaxes may be used with them:
>
> • ssh://[user@]host.xz[:port]/path/to/repo.git/
> • git://host.xz[:port]/path/to/repo.git/
> • http[s]://host.xz[:port]/path/to/repo.git/
> • ftp[s]://host.xz[:port]/path/to/repo.git/
>
> An alternative scp-like syntax may also be used with the ssh protocol:
>
> • [user@]host.xz:path/to/repo.git/
>
> So convert the scp-like syntax to ssh:// URLs in parse_uris() for spec
> compliance.
>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
I see that "downloads" section from "show-info" are not tested on the
generate-cyclonedx tests yet. I will add this later.
Thanks for the detailled description !
Acked-By: Thomas Perale <thomas.perale@mind.be>
> ---
> utils/generate-cyclonedx | 6 ++++++
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/utils/generate-cyclonedx b/utils/generate-cyclonedx
> index bade018cd4..df12ee84c0 100755
> --- a/utils/generate-cyclonedx
> +++ b/utils/generate-cyclonedx
> @@ -280,6 +280,12 @@ def parse_uris(uris: list[str]) -> Iterator[tuple[list[str], str]]:
> scheme, _, stripped_uri = uri.partition("+")
> if stripped_uri:
> parsed = urllib.parse.urlparse(stripped_uri)
> +
> + # convert scp-style host:path site to ssh:// uri
> + if scheme == "git" and not parsed.scheme:
> + host, _, path = stripped_uri.partition(":")
> + stripped_uri = "ssh://" + host + "/" + path
> +
> if parsed.hostname != "sources.buildroot.net":
> yield scheme.split("|"), stripped_uri
>
> --
> 2.47.3
>
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