Re: gnulib via http:// instead of git://

[Thorsten Meyer]

This seems to be a clean local solution to me:
https://mailman.cae.wisc.edu/pipermail/octave-maintainers/2012-February/027162.html

Thorsten

On 02/22/2012 10:52 AM, Dr. Alexander Klein wrote:
> Am 22.02.2012 um 10:30 schrieb Thorsten Meyer:
>
>> a request from a poor user locked behind a firewall:
>> would anybody mind, if the source of gnulib was changed from
>>      git://git.sv.gnu.org/gnulib
>> to
>>      http://git.savannah.gnu.org/r/gnulib
>> ?
> Thorsten,
>
> this has been discussed before when I ran into the same problem! For a local 
> solution see:
>
> https://mailman.cae.wisc.edu/pipermail/octave-maintainers/2011-September/025098.html
> https://mailman.cae.wisc.edu/pipermail/octave-maintainers/2011-September/025099.html
>
> JWE thought that instead of fixing it locally in Octave it should rather be 
> fixed in the gnulib/build-aux/bootstrap script issued along with gnulib 
> itself:
>
>> If there are problems with it, then they should be addressed in the
>> gnulib project.  That way the fixes will benefit more than just Octave
>> developers.
> In the end I didn't get around to reporting the problem to the gnulib people, 
> but maybe this should be done now since I'm not the only one?
>
> Later,
>
>       Alex
>