[poky] Yocto 2.5 and problem with pseudo-native-1.9.0

[Bas Mevissen]

On 2018-05-17 12:35, Arno Steffens wrote:
>> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 17. Mai 2018 um 09:33 Uhr
>> Von: "Bas Mevissen" <abuse at basmevissen.nl>
>> An: "Arno Steffens" <star at gmx.li>
>> Cc: poky at yoctoproject.org, "Richard Purdie" 
>> <richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org>
>> Betreff: Re: Aw: Re:  Re: [poky] Yocto 2.5 and problem with 
>> pseudo-native-1.9.0
>> 
>> On 2018-05-17 08:58, Arno Steffens wrote:
>> 
>> (...)
>> >
>> > Thanks Bas,
>> > indeed, that finally solves the issue - great! Thank you so much!
>> > Look what will happen next.
>> 
>> As you cannot download from git repos using the git protocol, you will
>> be dependent on the tar files that are hosted by the Yocto project.
>> 
>> > Not sure I understand Richards explanation, but if there are more
>> > problems like that - can/shall I report it here again?
>> 
>> I think so. As Richard indicated, they sometimes get outdated. As I
>> assume most people use git clones instead of the fallback tar files,
>> problems will go unnoticed for a long time otherwise.
>> 
>> Note that using the tar files is very bandwidth inefficient, as you 
>> need
>> to download a complete new tar file for every small change that you 
>> need
>> to pull in. So maybe that can give you some leverage to your employer 
>> to
>> open up git access.
> 
> 2.5 sumo is rather new ...
> 

Yocto versions in active support and especially shortly after release 
receive most updates. So one might expect to have regular updates to

> Our IT teams give signs to open the port. Is TCP-Port 9418 sufficient?

That should be fine. Ask them for outgoing port TCP/22 as well, see 
below.

> 
> I found an issue with
> ptest-runner-2.1.1.bb
> prelink-git.bb
> and finally (that is what I couldn't repair)
> mtd-utils.
> 
> There your workaround didn't do the job.

Information on http://git.infradead.org/linux-mtd.git indeed seems to 
indicate no http(s) support is available. You might try your luck with 
ssh.


-- Bas.