Re: When are the git servers available to obtain the ports tree?

From: Philip Paeps <philip_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Tue, 03 May 2022 04:04:29 UTC
On 2022-05-03 11:44:14 (+0800), Chris wrote:
> On 2022-05-02 18:42, Philip Paeps wrote:
>> On 2022-05-03 01:27:39 (+0800), 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
>>
> Thanks for the reply, Philip.
>> Which mirror are you hitting?  What does "host git.freebsd.org" say?
> # host git.freebsd.org
> git.freebsd.org is an alias for gitmir.geo.freebsd.org.
> gitmir.geo.freebsd.org has address 149.20.1.203
> gitmir.geo.freebsd.org has IPv6 address 2001:4f8:1:11::e6a:1
> gitmir.geo.freebsd.org mail is handled by 0

Thanks.  It looks like the 504 is sent by the mirror after all, and not 
a middlebox.  Interestingly, it's most often sending it to you.  
Probably because you're the only one doing full clones regularly.  The 
mirror isn't particularly busy.  I'll look more closely after I have 
some lunch.

Philip

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Philip Paeps
Senior Reality Engineer
Alternative Enterprises