Shutting down of the git-daemon (git protocol, https and ssh still remain)

[Marek Vasut]

On 6/13/24 9:49 AM, Claudius Heine wrote:

Hi,

[...]

>> Also, while I checked OE-Core, other third party/community maintained 
>> layer could be impacted. I assume this is the case of 
>> meta-amarula-engicam[1] and meta-allwinner-hx[2] for example.
>>
>> I would suggest sending a mail to the different build systems mailing 
>> lists, I assume https://lists.openembedded.org/g/openembedded-devel 
>> and https://lists.yoctoproject.org/g/yocto for the OE-Core/YP side? 
>> Either to ask for their opinion or notify them (and specifically third 
>> party layers) it's going away or both.
> 
> Not sure if I want to go through them all. Looking into all these 3rd 
> party, downstream repos and informing everyone seems to be even more 
> effort than maintaining the git protocol.
> 
> And if someone uses their repo, they will notice it quickly and can 
> easily fix it.

I very much agree, that ^ is probably the best way to go.

If some legacy repository breaks, fix the repository, hopefully there 
aren't too many of those to fix. Github deprecated git protocol a few 
years back and users managed too, except the fallout here is much 
smaller as it affects only one recipe (or a few).

I suspect the following patch to oe-core (or local.conf equivalent) 
might also entirely mitigate the issue by providing https fallback 
automatically, without the need to modify the legacy layer/recipe ?

If so, maybe this could be added to OE LTS releases at least ?

"
diff --git a/meta/classes-global/mirrors.bbclass 
b/meta/classes-global/mirrors.bbclass
index 862648eec5..50a14c5881 100644
--- a/meta/classes-global/mirrors.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes-global/mirrors.bbclass
@@ -77,6 +77,7 @@ https?://downloads.yoctoproject.org/mirror/sources/ 
https://mirrors.kernel.org/y

  MIRRORS += "\
  git://salsa.debian.org/.*     git://salsa.debian.org/PATH;protocol=https \
+git://git.denx.de/.*          git://git.denx.de/PATH;protocol=https \
  git://git.gnome.org/.* 
git://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/PATH;protocol=https \
  git://git.infradead.org/.*    git://git.infraroot.at/PATH;protocol=https \
  git://.*/.*                   git://HOST/PATH;protocol=https \
"

> Anyway, I fixed it yesterday, and it doesn't make much sense to stop it 
> now. So I will leave it in place until it breaks again, then I just 
> remove it.

Do you know how long it was actually broken ? (i.e. how long nobody 
noticed and complained about it?)