On Mon, Sep 3, 2018 at 9:18 PM Paul Eggleton <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi folks, > > In the layer index / RRS code I have found that if it tries to use bitbake's > git fetcher to access a git repository on github that has been renamed or gone > private via http/https, I get prompted for a password interactively, > presumably on the assumption that maybe if I authenticate I might be able to > see the repo. Here's an example git command that will trigger it (trimmed from > the actual command issued by the fetcher): > > git ls-remote http://github.com/symless/synergy.git > > This can be disabled by setting the environment variables GIT_ASKPASS to an > empty string and GIT_TERMINAL_PROMPT to 0, which allows the fetch command to > fail immediately. I could conceivably do this in the layer index / RRS > scripts, but it occurred to me that perhaps this should be disabled in > bitbake's git fetcher itself. We need to decide whether or not interactive > password prompts should be allowed during a fetch operation (I'm guessing not, > although I have a feeling this might be a "spacebar heating" situation for > some). > > Thoughts? In particular, does anyone object to disabling such interactive > prompts during fetching? >
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