jhbuild repository cloning failed

Question

I'm currently using Ubuntu 12.04 and jhbuild ver 3.12.0 and git version 1.7.9.5.

Earlier I asked a question and it was resolved, now the same problem(I suppose it's the same problem) arises when i build using jhbuild,being behind a proxy it cannot clone the repo which has got git:// in the URL because the URL requires to be either of http:// OR https:// . Since cloning process is automatic by jhbuild it results into an error as following -

$ jhbuild build glib
W: Circular dependencies detected: glib -> gvfs -> glib
W: Circular dependencies detected: glib -> glib-networking -> glib
W: Circular dependencies detected: glib -> dconf -> glib
*** Checking out itstool *** [1/5]
*** Skipping itstool (package and dependencies not updated) *** [1/5]
*** Checking out yelp-xsl *** [2/5]
git clone git://git.gnome.org/yelp-xsl
Cloning into 'yelp-xsl'...
fatal: unable to connect to git.gnome.org:
git.gnome.org[0: 209.132.180.184]: errno=Connection timed out

*** Error during phase checkout of yelp-xsl: ########## Error running git clone git://git.gnome.org/yelp-xsl *** [2/5]

What could be the possible solution to it ?

Answer 1

I also recently had this problem. The solution is a VPN / Proxy.

Answer 2

The documentation links to a blog post describing how to set up JHBuild such that it uses the HTTP URLs instead of the git ones. From there, you can use your HTTP proxy.

Essentially, set up your config file to replace the repository URLs:

repos['git.gnome.org'] = 'https://git.gnome.org/browse/'  
repos['git.freedesktop.org'] = 'http://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/'  
repos['wayland.freedesktop.org'] = 'http://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/wayland'  
repos['gstreamer.freedesktop.org'] = 'http://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/gstreamer'  
repos['pulseaudio.freedesktop.org'] = 'http://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/pulseaudio'  
repos['telepathy.freedesktop.org'] = 'http://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/telepathy'  
repos['modemmanager.freedesktop.org'] = 'http://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/ModemManager'  
repos['git.savannah.nongnu.org'] = 'http://git.savannah.gnu.org/r/'  
repos['github.com'] = 'https://github.com/'

Let me also link to this answer to properly maintain links between similar subjects.