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

On 2022-05-02 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.

Thanks for trying! :-)
> 
>> 
>> Thanks! :-)
>> 
>> --Chris
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> Janky Jay, III