Re: Building GNOME in restrictive network environments

[Debarshi Ray <rishi is lostca se>]

On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 01:29:09PM +0100, mcatanzaro gnome org wrote:
>  * Some modules clone git:// submodules. Please be on the lookout for 
> these. For example, this is .gitmodules in gnome-online-accounts:
>
> # Bad
> [submodule "telepathy-account-widgets"]
>  path = telepathy-account-widgets
>  url = git://git.gnome.org/telepathy-account-widgets.git
>
> It's better to clone using the same protocol as the parent project:
>
> # Good
> [submodule "telepathy-account-widgets"]
>  path = telepathy-account-widgets
>  url = ../telepathy-account-widgets.git

This was done on purpose because ostbuild used to have problems with
the relative URLs. See gnome-photos.git where the libgd submodule
started off by using a relative URL, but was then changed to use an
absolute one.

What's the current state of affairs here? Will Continuous break if
we were use relative URLs for the submodules?