[yocto] problem with fetching?

[Scott Garman]

On 11/10/2010 05:31 AM, Kumar Gala wrote:
>
> On Nov 10, 2010, at 7:29 AM, Richard Purdie wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 2010-11-10 at 06:32 -0600, Kumar Gala wrote:
>>> ERROR: Task failed: Fetch failed: Unable to fetch URL cvs://anonymous@cvs.sv.gnu.org/cvsroot/config;module=config;method=pserver;date=20080123 from any source.
>>> NOTE: package gnu-config-native-0.1+cvs20080123-r1: task do_fetch: Failed
>>> ERROR: Task 211 (virtual:native:/local/home/galak/poky-laverne-4.0/meta/recipes-devtools/gnu-config/gnu-config_20080123.bb, do_fetch) failed with 1
>>> ERROR: 'virtual:native:/local/home/galak/poky-laverne-4.0/meta/recipes-devtools/gnu-config/gnu-config_20080123.bb' failed
>>>
>>> Attached is the full log.
>>
>> Are you behind some kind of proxy/firewall? Its interesting its a cvs
>> based recipe that is failing so it could be your cvs setup.
>
> Yes, behind a proxy/firewall.  cvs is not normally allowed out.

If you're behind a SOCKS proxy, these instructions might be helpful to 
get CVS checkouts working:

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

Scott

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Scott Garman
Embedded Linux Distro Engineer - Yocto Project