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

[Janky Jay, III]

Hi Chris,

On 5/2/22 13:04, 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:

fatal: error reading section header 'shallow-info'

error: RPC failed; HTTP 504 curl 22 The requested URL returned error: 504

500MB fixed the issue for older git versions:

# git config --global http.postBuffer 524288000

Hope that helps!

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

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.

Regards,
Janky Jay, III

Just a quick FYI, the 500MB was just the first number I tried when tinkering and trying to resolve the issue I was having. It's very possible that number could be much, much lower and still work for you. Maybe try adding 10MB at a time and give it a shot. Might just work immediately. *shrug*

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