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.
The only issue I see is that we then use the svn _and_ https port for all checkouts etc. Could that cause other trouble? People behind a firewall which blocks https but not svn would lose. But I guess that's a highly unlikely scenario.
Comments?
Uwe.