Re: Building GNOME in restrictive network environments

[Mathieu Bridon <bochecha daitauha fr>]

I've just gotten bitten by this as well, and have started moving all
the ones in gnome-apps-nightly from git:// to https://


-- 
Mathieu

On Mon, 2017-07-31 at 14:15 +0100, Bastian Ilso wrote:
> We also experienced this issue at the newcomers workshop as many
> flatpak manifests also download dependencies using the git://
> protocol. It'd be great to have these fixed or maybe have a fallback
> behavior (having several URLs to try in the manifests?).
>
>
> -Bastian
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 1:29 , mcatanzaro gnome org wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I've gotten multiple complaints at GUADEC that it's not possible to
> > clone GNOME modules because the university network is blocking the
> > git protocol. This is particularly common at universities in third-
> > world countries, where it's common for newcomers to complain about
> > this, but seems it happens in Europe too. So I have changed JHBuild
> > to clone stuff using https:// rather than git://. I'm testing this
> > now and will push as soon as I'm sure I haven't broken anything.
> >
> > Cav eats:
> >
> >  * I have not updated all of gnome-world, so contributions are
> > welcome there as usual. But all the supported 3.26 modulesets
> > should now be completely fixed.
> >
> >  * Some modules clone git:// submodules. Please be on the lookout
> > for these. For example, this is .gitmodules in gnome-online-
> > accounts:
> >
> > # Bad
> > [submodule "telepathy-account-widgets"]
> >  path = telepathy-account-widgets
> >  url = git://git.gnome.org/telepathy-account-widgets.git
> >
> > It's better to clone using the same protocol as the parent project:
> >
> > # Good
> > [submodule "telepathy-account-widgets"]
> >  path = telepathy-account-widgets
> >  url = ../telepathy-account-widgets.git
> >
> > I'll leave it to module maintainers to fix these.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Michael
>
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Mathieu