references to pull from anongit.freedesktop.org fail intermittently

[bvacaliuc]

Observed this error when building on a private cloud instance:
log.do_configure.18768.txt

This issue had a workaround, but when applied, produced this:
log.do_configure.2035.txt

Which this issue had a more complete and modern solution that I implemented in https://github.com/uvdl/yocto-ornl/tree/hotfix/cades-build

During the build, I scanned the .bb* files in ../sources for any remaining anongit.freedesktop.org references as follows:

cades@linuxsystembuilder:~/ornl-dart-yocto$ find sources -name "*.bb*" -exec grep anongit {} /dev/null \;
sources/poky/meta/recipes-devtools/pkgconfig/pkgconfig_git.bb:SRC_URI = "git://anongit.freedesktop.org/pkg-config \
sources/poky/meta/recipes-multimedia/gstreamer/gst-examples_git.bb:SRC_URI = "git://anongit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-examples \
sources/poky/meta/recipes-graphics/xorg-proto/presentproto_git.bb:SRC_URI = "git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/proto/presentproto"
sources/poky/meta/recipes-graphics/xorg-proto/calibrateproto_git.bb:SRC_URI = "git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/proto/calibrateproto \
sources/poky/meta/recipes-graphics/xorg-lib/libxcalibrate_git.bb:SRC_URI = "git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/lib/libXCalibrate \
sources/poky/meta/recipes-graphics/kmscube/kmscube_git.bb:SRC_URI = "git://anongit.freedesktop.org/mesa/kmscube;branch=master;protocol=git \
sources/poky/meta/recipes-graphics/piglit/piglit_git.bb:SRC_URI = "git://anongit.freedesktop.org/piglit \
sources/poky/meta/recipes-graphics/xorg-driver/xf86-video-intel_git.bb:SRC_URI = "git://anongit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-intel \
sources/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-test/evtest/evtest_git.bb:SRC_URI = "git://anongit.freedesktop.org/evtest;protocol=git"
sources/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/vdpau/libvdpau_git.bb:SRC_URI = "git://anongit.freedesktop.org/vdpau/libvdpau"

Anyway, the gst-interpipe recipe fails the same way. The reason is that gst-interpipe has a git submodule reference to the anongit.freedesktop.org that should be changed to gitlab.freedesktop.org as this commit describes.

[bvacaliuc]

not so fast... I just tried it as a test, and gitlab.freedesktop.org requires authentication. So.... maybe not?

[bvacaliuc]

However, the github mirror described in this page seems to work ok, even on an AWS instance:

$ git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-examples.git
Cloning into 'gst-examples'...
^C
$ git clone git://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-examples.git
Cloning into 'gst-examples'...
^C
$ git clone git://github.com/freedesktop/gstreamer-gst-examples.git
Cloning into 'gstreamer-gst-examples'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 1291, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (1291/1291), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (501/501), done.
remote: Total 2972 (delta 626), reused 1237 (delta 584), pack-reused 1681
Receiving objects: 100% (2972/2972), 1.07 MiB | 0 bytes/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (1218/1218), done.
Checking connectivity... done.

Observe that the URLs are different. It would seem as if we need to patch these anongit.freedesktop.org references if we are going to get reliable builds, right?

[waddle77]

Closing due to inactivity.