Re: [LinuxBIOS] svn and firewall

[Stefan Reinauer]

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.

Ouch. Should we completely switch over to https/webdav maybe?
> I would suggest removing the external item hack, and referring to the real
> util/ URL instead.

What do you mean by "referring"?