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

On 2022-05-02 11:21, Lorenzo Salvadore wrote:
> ------- Original Message -------
> On Monday, May 2nd, 2022 at 20:12, Chris <portmaster@bsdforge.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 2022-05-02 10:59, Kurt Jaeger wrote:
>> 
>> > Hi!
>> >
>> > > 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'
>> >
>> > That's the command I use as well. To be honest, I do not
>> > need to clone the tree that often, once every few month is enough.
>> 
>> Thanks for taking the time to reply, Kurt.
>> Just for the record; it took exactly 9 attempts before returning 200. :-(
>> That's roughly 10 minutes, but closer to 15 in real time.
>> But at least it finally worked. :-)
>> It'd be nice to discover why this is a problem. Is it just my servers
>> IP's... ?
> 
> I see you are using https://git.freebsd.org/ports.git . Have you tried
> ssh://git@gitrepo.FreeBSD.org/ports.git instead ?
Thank you kindly for the reply. Unfortunately, that returns FATAL/REFUSED.
> If I understand correctly
> what's written at the end of the https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/ page,
> this link is reserved for developers, so it probably has less traffic and
> you might have more luck.
Thank you for the thoughtful reply, Lorenzo!

l8r,
Chris
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Lorenzo Salvadore