On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 01:29:02PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > http://linuxbios.org/index.php/Download_LinuxBIOS says that if you are behind > a > firewall that blocks the svn port, you can work around this by using https for > checkout. > > However, in practice this doesn't really work, because at some point it will > run into the "fetching external item" hack for the util/ directory, and hang > there. > > I would suggest removing the external item hack, and referring to the real > util/ URL instead.
Interesting problem. The issue is that the svn:externals are hardcoded to use svn:// to grab the stuff. Removing the svn:externals links is probably not an option, as many people want to have the utilities in the v2 / v3 tree. But we could change the svn:externals links to always use https:// instead of svn://. I verified that it fixes the checkout problems if the svn port is blocked. The only issue I see is that we then use the svn _and_ https port for all checkouts etc. Could that cause other trouble? People behind a firewall which blocks https but not svn would lose. But I guess that's a highly unlikely scenario. Comments? Uwe. -- http://www.hermann-uwe.de | http://www.holsham-traders.de http://www.crazy-hacks.org | http://www.unmaintained-free-software.org
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