Re: net/gitup began to fail

Been seeing this ports/ error since since yesterday morning.  Updates to
the src/ tree are working at least but, does anyone know what's wrong
with git.freebsd.org/ports.git (aka gitmir.geo.freebsd.org)?

Roger

On Thu, 7 May 2026, Robert William Vesterman wrote:
> This is happening to me too, and others. Here are some links I've been checking regarding it:
> 
> FreeBSD Forums: gitup: process_command: read failure
> Bugzilla: 295065, 295066, and 295067
> FreeBSD Hackers mailing list: gitup failure
> 
> The FreeBSD Hackers link is to the top email in the thread. Unfortunately I don't know see any way to easily navigate a thread
> (like, I don't see a "Next in Thread" link). I've been occasionally checking the May 2026 by-thread archive and just manually
> checking the links to individual messages in the thread.
> 
> I don't really understand why there are three separate Bugzilla reports. They're all by the same person, who is also the person
> who started the thread in the FreeBSD Hackers mailing list. He gave an explanation in the FreeBSD Forums thread, but it was
> pretty terse and I get the feeling that I might have misinterpreted it.
> 
> To be clear, there is currently (well, last I checked) nothing in any of these things I linked to that seems particularly useful
> in a direct way to end users who are having the issue; just reports that it's happening. But I imagine that eventually something
> will get to one or more of these.
> 
> On 5/7/2026 12:44 AM, [email protected] wrote:
> 
> I successfully used port net/gitup to update ports tree. Suddenly it began
> to fail. I deleted /usr/ports and told gitup to clone it - same error
> (on both my hosts - workstation and VPS):
> 
> ~ # gitup -c ports
> # Host: git.freebsd.org
> # Port: 443
> # Repository Path: /ports.git
> # Target Directory: /usr/ports
> # Want: 10584ee144da9593c353e500874e0683bcc2833f
> # Branch: main
> gitup: process_command: read failure:
> 
> HTTP/1.1 200 OK
> Server: nginx/1.28.3
> Date: Thu, 07 May 2026 04:36:33 GMT
> Content-Type: application/x-git-upload-pack-result
> Transfer-Encoding: chunked
> Connection: keep-alive
> Expires: Fri, 01 Jan 1980 00:00:00 GMT
> Pragma: no-cache
> Cache-Control: no-cache, max-age=0, must-revalidate
> 0011shallow-info
> 0001000dpackfile
> 00052004PACK
> : Invalid argument
> ~ #
> 
> Debug with "-v 3" doesn't show more info.
> 14.4-RELEASE-p3 amd64.
> 
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