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

[Daniel Ebdrup Jensen]

On Mon, May 02, 2022 at 01:37:47PM -0700, Chris wrote, in part:

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

Hi folks,

     One potential solution to this would be to use ssh+anongit [1]
     which FreeBSD offers as an alternative to https.
     Incidentally, it's also mentioned as one of the clone URIs at on
     the cgit webUI.

     It can be used as the pull URI for anyone, just like the committer
     repo - but one advantage it has is that things are transferred over
     the sftp protocol if memory serves correctly.
     This means that unlike http(s) which would need pipelining,
     everything is one datastream of TCP packets instead of multiple
     multiple HTTP GET requests.

     It also has the advantage that as more servers are added to the
     FreeBSD CDN, it becomes more geographically distributed without
     giving up the source of truth repo status that most of us also
     want. :)

     I don't pull _as_ often as you, but I can't say that I've ever
     noticed it failing - so maybe it'll work out better?

Yours,
Daniel Ebdrup Jensen

1: ssh://anon...@git.freebsd.org/ports.git

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