[Xorg] Xorg Tinderbox & firewalls

[Jim Gettys]

Having firewall support would be very good.


On Mon, 2004-07-26 at 21:28, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> In order to get tinderbox running through our firewall (which requires
> http proxy servers for http and socks proxies for cvs) I had to make
> two simple changes to the tinderbox scripts.
> 
> The first I think is safe to go in the default since it simply checks
> the environment for http_proxy settings:
> 
> --- /net/alf/export/alanc/X.org/tb/tinderclient/tinderclient.pl Mon Mar  8 12:10:25 2004
> +++ ./tinderclient.pl   Sun Jul 25 22:13:41 2004
> @@ -204,6 +204,7 @@
>     $this->{MACHINE_NAME} = $machine_name;
>     # The user agent object
>     $this->{UA} = new LWP::UserAgent;
> +       $this->{UA}->env_proxy();
>     $this->{UA}->agent("TinderboxClient/" . $TinderClient::PROTOCOL_VERSION);
>     # the tinderclient.log out
>     $this->{LOG_OUT} = undef;
> 
> The second should probably be made configurable if it's added to the files
> in CVS, otherwise just noted in the instructions for anyone who wants to do
> this, since it adds "runsocks" to the CVS commands:
> 
> --- /net/alf/export/alanc/X.org/tb/tinderclient/TinderClientModules/XMonolithic.pm      Sat Jul 17 13:21:56 2004
> +++ ./TinderClientModules/XMonolithic.pm        Sun Jul 25 22:14:21 2004
> @@ -45,11 +45,11 @@
>          $hostdef = $hostdef . "#define CcCmd ccache gcc\n";
>          $hostdef = $hostdef . "#define CplusplusCmd ccache g++\n";
>       }
> 
>       # Build the cvs checkout cmd - note, the cvsroot variable must be set in the
>       # Tinderbox.
> -    $checkout_cmd = "cvs -z3 -d $cvsroot co -P ";
> -    $update_cmd = "cvs -z3 -d $cvsroot update -P ";
> +    $checkout_cmd = "runsocks cvs -z3 -d $cvsroot co -P ";
> +    $update_cmd = "runsocks cvs -z3 -d $cvsroot update -P ";
> 
>       if ($branch) {
>          $checkout_cmd .= "-r$branch ";
> 

If you make this configurable, there would be no problems adding this
to CVS.
                                - Jim