Failing to get metadata

[Michael Pyne]

On Tue, August 16, 2016 18:03:29 Milian Wolff wrote:
> On Montag, 15. August 2016 21:23:16 CEST Mehak Goyal wrote:
> > Hi!
> > 
> > I am trying to build  kdevelop usinf kdesrc-build. I am using
> > 
> >  a proxy server. I am stuck at the following error when I run the
> > 
> > initial command: kdesrc-build kdevelop
> > 
> > Cloning kde-build-metadata
> > 
> >     Falling back to clone of kde-build-metadata
> > 
> > kdesrc-build encountered an exceptional error condition:
> >  ========
> >  
> >     Runtime Error: Failed to make initial clone of kde-build-metadata
> >  
> >  ========
> >  
> >     Can't continue, so stopping now.
> > 
> > The proxy works through the terminal as in works with the sudo apt-get
> > install/update commands.
> 
> Does git clone of a KDE repository work?
> 
>     $ git clone -vvv git://anongit.kde.org/kde-build-metadata
>     Cloning into 'kde-build-metadata'...
>     Looking up anongit.kde.org ... done.
>     Connecting to anongit.kde.org (port 9418) ... 31.216.41.69 done.
>     Server supports multi_ack_detailed
>     Server supports side-band-64k
>     Server supports ofs-delta
>     Server version is git/2.1.4
>     want b0d7cd532b36b92e15a787c89c82fa7db00f4d09 (HEAD)
>     want 97919ce4159285eb2c75b2571aa648e23f412bd3 (refs/heads/branch_info)
>     want 164e1f94ab808c07df66585aa54ce770972255f9 (refs/heads/ciUpdate)
>     want b0d7cd532b36b92e15a787c89c82fa7db00f4d09 (refs/heads/master)
>     done
>     remote: Counting objects: 4366, done.
>     remote: Compressing objects: 100% (2284/2284), done.
>     remote: Total 4366 (delta 2924), reused 3129 (delta 2079)
>     Receiving objects: 100% (4366/4366), 495.18 KiB | 0 bytes/s, done.
>     Resolving deltas: 100% (2924/2924), done.
>     Checking connectivity... done.
> 
> If not, then please figure out why. Also, I'm moving this to kde-devel, as
> it's not directly a problem related only to KDevelop.

You may need to set an extra couple of options for proxy support in kdesrc-
build but it should work otherwise (though I've not tried it in 4 years...)

See https://docs.kde.org/trunk5/en/extragear-utils/kdesrc-build/conf-options-table.html#conf-git-desired-protocol

which refers to the configuration options "git-desired-protocol" and "http-
proxy".

Regards,
 - Michael Pyne