Re: git clone issues on 15.1-RELEASE on arm64

On 8/1/26 12:44, Nenhum_de_Nos wrote:
> 
> 
> August 1, 2026 at 2:25 PM, "Mark Millard" <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]?
> to=%22Mark%20Millard%22%20%3Cmarklmi%40yahoo.com%3E>> wrote:
> 
>     On 8/1/26 08:46, Nenhum_de_Nos wrote:
> 
>         August 1, 2026 at 10:47 AM, "Karl Denninger" <[email protected]
>         <mailto:[email protected]?
>         to=%22Karl%20Denninger%22%20%3Ckarl%40denninger.net%3E>> wrote:
> 
>         The problem appears to be at this point:
> 
>         Cloning into '/usr/src'...
>         fatal: unable to access 'https://git.freebsd.org/src.git/
>         <https://git.freebsd.org/src.git/> <https://git.freebsd.org/
>         src.git/>': <https://git.freebsd.org/src.git/%3E':> Resolving
>         timed out after 300226 milliseconds
> 
>         I do not know why, however, because my "base" source git clone has
>         in its config the following:
> 
>         [remote "freebsd"]
>                 url = https://git.freebsd.org/src.git <https://
>         git.freebsd.org/src.git> <https://
>         git.freebsd.org/src.git>
>                 fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/freebsd/*
> 
>         And it works.
> 
>         I have several worktrees checked out against that since I build for
>         14-STABLE and 15-STABLE at this point for distribution to machines
>         running ARM64 and AMD64.
> 
>         My latest "git pull --ff-only" to so-update was this morning.
> 
>         On 8/1/2026 09:36, Nenhum_de_Nos wrote:
> 
>         Hi,
> 
>         I have been fighting this issue for 2 weeks now, I guess its
>         time to ask here. The problem:
> 
>         root@arm_build_hd:/usr # rm -rf src/
>         root@arm_build_hd:/usr # /root/git/freebsd_config/freebsd_git/
>         src_git_checkout_15.1R.sh
>         Cloning into '/usr/src'...
>         fatal: unable to access 'https://git.freebsd.org/src.git/
>         <https://git.freebsd.org/src.git/> <https://git.freebsd.org/
>         src.git/>': <https://git.freebsd.org/src.git/%3E':> Resolving
>         timed out after 300226 milliseconds
>         root@arm_build_hd:/usr # /root/git/freebsd_config/freebsd_git/
>         src_git_checkout_15.1R.sh
>         Cloning into '/usr/src'...
>         remote: Enumerating objects: 4850942, done.
>         remote: Counting objects: 100% (384686/384686), done.
>         remote: Compressing objects: 100% (29598/29598), done.
>         error: RPC failed; curl 56 OpenSSL SSL_read: OpenSSL/3.5.6:
>         error:0A000126:SSL routines::unexpected eof while reading, errno 0
>         error: 73 bytes of body are still expected
>         fetch-pack: unexpected disconnect while reading sideband packet
>         fatal: early EOF
>         fatal: fetch-pack: invalid index-pack output
>         root@arm_build_hd:/usr # /root/git/freebsd_config/freebsd_git/
>         src_git_checkout_15.1R.sh
>         you have mail
>         Cloning into '/usr/src'...
>         fatal: unable to access 'https://git.freebsd.org/src.git/
>         <https://git.freebsd.org/src.git/> <https://git.freebsd.org/
>         src.git/>': <https://git.freebsd.org/src.git/%3E':> Resolving
>         timed out after 300040 milliseconds
>         root@arm_build_hd:/usr # cat /root/git/freebsd_config/
>         freebsd_git/src_git_checkout_15.1R.sh
>         git clone --branch releng/15.1 https://git.freebsd.org/src.git
>         <https://git.freebsd.org/src.git> <https://git.freebsd.org/
>         src.git> <https://git.freebsd.org/src.git%3E> /usr/src
>         root@arm_build_hd:/usr #
> 
>         On two Orange Pi 5 Plus 16GB I have FreeBSD 15.1-R installed so
>         I can build opnsense for arm64 (this is not relevant for the
>         problem, except for one detail I will tell later). This box
>         above had 14.3-R running fine, all build times were fine, git
>         worked perfectly. Since I needed to upgrade to 15.1-R, git
>         stopped working as it was expected (and presented above).
> 
>         I looked for DNS reasons, changed DNS server, local server,
>         remote server, kept ping github.com while cloning, no good. I
>         started using the upgraded box, then I got another similar arm64
>         box and installed fresh 15.1-R, everytime the same issue. The
>         one detail I told about opnsense building is that I use pkg
>         2.3.1_1, as is the version that ships on the images and the port
>         is on opnsense ports github repo. Other than that, regular
>         FreeBSD 15.1-R. I download the github zip file for ports, run
>         make install on the pkg port and lock the package after. Used to
>         work fine, can this be the culprit? I got some messages after
>         upgrade about libpkg not the same version or database version.
>         But I then installed it all over and no more of that.
> 
>         So I tried to clone the repo today on a Linux Desktop here
>         (Linux Mint), all fine. Same network, same servers, same ISP. I
>         then tried on an old amd64 box running FreeBSD 15.1-R. Again,
>         fine. Both my arm64 failed, even after fresh install. Can the
>         pkg port be the one? Before I forget, both the arm64 run on
>         magnetic HDDs over USB adapter and all other run on SSDs over
>         SATA. Would this make this all happen?
> 
>         After several tries (3 days) I got to clone the repo and got to
>         start building. Ports used to take 24h and now runs for 5 days.
>         So I got info about llvm changes and got the config to try to
>         solve this (/etc/src.conf), and my point is just that, I need to
>         build vanilla FreeBSD 15.1-R on arm64 (just using older pkg, I
>         can try to not change now if people think may help) so I can
>         have world and kernel using llvm options from 14.X
> 
> 
>     Start distinct subject from the main point of your post:
> 
>     Were you successful at significantly decreasing that "5 days" time
>     frame? If yes, you may want to be very explicit about what you changed
>     that made the difference.
> 
>     The official arm64 build server build times suggests that 14.4 now takes
>     longer than 14.3 did --and that 15.1 takes even longer, as I remember.
> 
>     ("Suggests" is tied to: none of the examples are re-runs of the exact
>     same ports tree content --or, mostly, the same package subset. Comparing
>     the fairly uncommon attempts to rebuild everything tend to be what I
>     look at for such comparison/contrast activities.)
> 
>     End distinct subject.
> 
> 
> 
> Mark,
> 
> Unfortunatelly not yet. I need to rebuild it all first.
> 
> the lines are:
> 
> WITH_MALLOC_PRODUCTION=yes
> WITHOUT_LLVM_ASSERTIONS=yes
> WITH_LLVM_LINK_STATIC_LIBRARIES=yes
> WITHOUT_PTHREADS_ASSERTIONS=yes

There is also:

WITHOUT_ASSERT_DEBUG=yes

But see:

<https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-stable/2025-September/003110.html>

for why official release builds do not do that.


Also, as I remember, the usage of all 5 of these ignore the text after
the = , even if that text is the likes of: no

> 
> 
> on /etc/src.conf.
> 
> matheus
> 


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