[poky] Introduction and Request for HTTP Git Access

[Scott Garman]

On 11/09/2010 08:31 AM, Ryan_D_Phillips at Dell.com wrote:
> Good Day!
>
> My name is Ryan Phillips (irc: rphillips), a former Gentoo Linux
> Developer, currently a software developer architecting an embedded
> firmware solution on OE for my employer. With the release of Yocto,
> we are extremely interested in trying it out and possibly
> contributing to the project. My cohort working with me is Sean Hudson
> (irc: darknighte), and is someone who you may see contributions from
> as well.
>
> A major stumbling block we must work around is the restrictive
> firewall and git checkouts. We have found out the git-http-backend
> works extremely well, and are requesting this support on
> git.pokylinux.org. We suspect other people within larger corporations
> would have a similar problem, and by adding this support would help
> the community at large.
>
> I can help out in any way possible.

Hi Ryan,

I just added a page to our wiki that details instructions for getting up
and running with Poky behind a SOCKS proxy server:

https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Working_Behind_a_Network_Proxy

Scott Garman