[libvirt] [GSoC]: Help in setup

[Radostin Stoyanov]

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 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.
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