I found https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Working_Behind_a_Network_Proxy (after doing a search for "yocto cvs proxy"). My compliments on the thoroughness of your documentation. (I shouldn't have assumed this wasn't already documented). It looks like these instructions will solve my problem.
-- Daryl On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 10:47 AM, Daryl Spitzer <[email protected]> wrote: > I followed the "Building an Image" instructions in the Yocto Project > Quick Start (on a newly configured machine running Ubuntu 11.04 (64 > bit), and got an error. The contents of the failure logfile is: > > NOTE: fetch > http://[email protected]/sources/config_cvs.sv.gnu.org__20080123.tar.gz > NOTE: Fetch > cvs://[email protected]/cvsroot/config;module=config;method=pserver;date=20080123 > cvs [checkout aborted]: connect to cvs.sv.gnu.org(140.186.70.72):2401 > failed: Connection timed out > ERROR: Function 'Fetcher failure for URL: > 'cvs://[email protected]/cvsroot/config;module=config;method=pserver;date=20080123'. > Unable to fetch URL > cvs://[email protected]/cvsroot/config;module=config;method=pserver;date=20080123 > from any source.' failed > > I'm guessing this problem is because I haven't configured CVS to work > through my employer's HTTP proxy. > > I did a search, and didn't find any definitive instructions for > configuring CVS. (In fact, I found > http://www.cygwin.com/ml/kawa/2003-q3/msg00069.html, which I'm hoping > is out-of-date since it talks about a patch, which—8 years ago at > least—wasn't included in GNU CVS. I did try defining the CVS_PROXY > environment variable as directed in that page just in case the CVS > build I'm using includes that patch—but I got the same build error.) > > Can anyone point me to up-to-date instructions for configuring CVS to > work through a proxy? > > And what command-line can I use to test it? > > -- > Daryl > _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list [email protected] https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto
