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 , mcatanz...@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 > > _______________________________________________ > desktop-devel-list mailing list > desktop-devel-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list -- Mathieu _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
