On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 02:41:53PM +0200, Stefan Reinauer wrote: > Uwe Hermann wrote: > > 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. > > > > > But currently you cannot commit there.
OK, that's a problem. FWIW, it looks like Subversion 1.5 may have support for this type of scenario, i.e. you don't have to hardcode svn:// or https:// anymore, it'll just use whatever you specified on the command line for the "normal" code _and_ for the svn:externals. http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1336 As a short-term workaround I think we can live with the --ignore-externals option. You'll have to checkout the svn:externals stuff manually then (if you want that; all of them are optional anyway -- flashrom, superiotool, lxbios -- so this shouldn't be a big problem). 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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