Re: On what days are the git servers available to obtain the ports tree?

[Chris]

On 2022-05-02 13:14, Jose Quinteiro wrote:

On 5/2/22 12:55, Chris wrote:

On 2022-05-02 12:04, Chris wrote:

On 2022-05-02 11:21, Janky Jay, III wrote:

Hi Chris,

On 5/2/22 11:09, Chris wrote:

I'm a maintainer for well over 100 ports. But more often than
not, I am not permitted to obtain the ports tree from any of
the FreeBSD git servers:

# git clone -o freebsd --config
remote.freebsd.fetch='+refs/notes/*:refs/notes/*'
https://git.freebsd.org/ports.git PORTS-20220502

returns:
error: RPC failed; HTTP 504 curl 22 The requested URL returned
error: 504
fatal: error reading section header 'shallow-info'

I've run into this issue in the past with older versions of git. I
found that
updating my version of git to anything equal or newer than 2.35.1
resolved it.

If you can't update your git version because you can't update your
ports tree, I
found that adjusting the size of the global config for git's
"http.postBuffer" to
500MB fixed the issue for older git versions:

# git config --global http.postBuffer 524288000

Hope that helps!

I think you may have provided me with both the problem && solution.
I'm performing
all of this within a jail(8) && my copy of git is not the newest; the
resources are
also less than those of the host. So I would venture a guess that at
*least* one of
your proposed solution gets it for me.

OK I tried
#git config --global http.postBuffer 524288000
but the results were the same. :-(

So I upgraded git to git-2.36.0 in that jail and again, the results were
the same. :-(

Thanks for your suggestions, Jay.
Looks like I'll have to cobble up a script and add it to cron. To
attempt to get a copy
of the ports tree once a day. Not stopping attempts until successful>

Is there a reason why you can't do a git pull to accomplish this?

Thanks for the reply, Jose.
Sure.

What I've done in the past when I had trouble cloning the Freebsd-hosted
repo is to clone the Github-hosted mirror, and then set the origin to
the Freebsd repo.

I can clone the github hosted mirror && make the changes. But that
removes the one-true-source factor, adds additional steps to a procedure
that should "Just Work".

everyone care as to why they don't?

Thanks again! :-)

Which is the real question. Why doesn't it Just Work? Clearly there is a problem with the FreeBSD git based system. All of the mailing lists work, I'm on 8 of them. All the dist servers work. I can get the dist images w/o any trouble. The online man pages work. The web pages work. But the git(1) service(s) don't. Why && shouldn't

Thanks,
Jose.

Chris

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