Question

After going through all of these steps to check out the Android source code (Gingerbread branch), only to come to a compile error, I have decided to try to get the source code from a different source.

Here are the steps that I have taken to checkout the source code from the GitHub.com repository.

I checked out the repo tool from the GitHub.com repository

git clone git://github.com/android/tools_repo.git

Inside the repo script file that was downloaded, I changed the location of the repo tool as follows:

## repo default configuration
##
#REPO_URL='git://android.git.kernel.org/tools/repo.git'
REPO_URL='git://github.com/android/tools_repo.git'
REPO_REV='stable'

After this, I created the repository for the source code using the repo script ‘git wrapper’.

repo init -u git://github.com/android/platform_manifest.git -b gingerbread

Which gave me a successful results; “repo initialized in /home/my/directory”

However, when I try to repo sync, I get the following error message:

$ repo sync

Initializing project platform/bionic ...
android.git.kernel.org[0: 149.20.4.77]: errno=Connection timed out
fatal: unable to connect a socket (Connection timed out)
error: Cannot fetch platform/bionic

Where are the references to the now-offline android.git.kernel.org? cat repo|grep kernel.org gives me nothing.

Answer 1

Here you can find the howto on checking out from github.