Re: [libvirt] [GSoC]: Help in setup

On 13/03/18 12:41, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > 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@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.

I think we can do this by applying the change in the .gitmodules file -       url = git://git.sv.gnu.org/gnulib.git +       url = https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/gnulib.git

> Regards, > Daniel Radostin -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list(a)redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list