[libvirt] [GSoC]: Help in setup

[Daniel P. Berrangé]

On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 01:37:25PM +0100, Cedric Bosdonnat wrote:
> On Tue, 2018-03-13 at 16:45 +0530, Sukrit Bhatnagar wrote:
> > Here is the output:
> > 
> > skrtbhtngr at ubuntu:~/libvirt$ ./autogen.sh --system
> > 
> > Updating submodules...
> > Submodule 'gnulib' (git://git.sv.gnu.org/gnulib.git) registered for path '.gnulib'
> > Submodule 'keycodemapdb' (https://gitlab.com/keycodemap/keycodemapdb.git) registered for path 'src/keycodemapdb'
> > Cloning into '/home/skrtbhtngr/libvirt/.gnulib'...
> > fatal: unable to connect to git.sv.gnu.org:
> > git.sv.gnu.org[0: 208.118.235.201]: errno=Connection timed out
> > 
> > fatal: clone of 'git://git.sv.gnu.org/gnulib.git' into submodule path '/home/skrtbhtngr/libvirt/.gnulib' failed
> > Failed to clone '.gnulib'. Retry scheduled
> > Cloning into '/home/skrtbhtngr/libvirt/src/keycodemapdb'...
> > Cloning into '/home/skrtbhtngr/libvirt/.gnulib'...
> > fatal: unable to connect to git.sv.gnu.org:
> > git.sv.gnu.org[0: 208.118.235.201]: errno=Connection timed out
> > 
> > fatal: clone of 'git://git.sv.gnu.org/gnulib.git' into submodule path '/home/skrtbhtngr/libvirt/.gnulib' failed
> > Failed to clone '.gnulib' a second time, aborting
> > error: Updating submodules failed
> > 
> > I have tried changing the gir URL 'git://git.sv.gnu.org/gnulib.git' to 'git://git.savannah.gnu.org/gnulib.git', but
> > even that doesn't work.
> 
> Could you try https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/gnulib.git/ ? I have already seen students hit by
> some firewall restrictions like that on their campus.

Does anyone know how to tell if a given https:// hosted GIT repo is using
the old dumb style or new smart style HTTP GIT transfer protocol. If we
can see savannah is using the smart style, it probably makes sense for us
to just switch libvirt to refer to gnulib via an https:// URI by default.
That way we avoid these problems for new comers or people with nasty
firewalls.

Regards,
Daniel
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