Problem updating git-core

[Thomas Lockhart]

On 4/1/14 2:06 PM, Joshua Root wrote:
> On 2014-4-2 04:01 , Thomas Lockhart wrote:
>> On 3/31/14 11:23 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>>> On Mar 31, 2014, at 18:06, Thomas Lockhart wrote:
>>>
>>>> Has anyone else noticed a problem fetching the git tarball from
>>>> kernel.org? I can do so successfully through my browser but it stalls
>>>> with a zero-length .TMP file when trying to update the port. The
>>>> update was prompted by running "selfupdate" then "upgrade outdated".
>>>>
>>>> I was hoping it was some misbehavior of kernel.org but this has been
>>>> trouble for a couple of days now. Any suggestions for debugging this?
>>> That does sound like misbehavior of that server. Have you talked to
>>> them about it?
>>>
>>> MacPorts eventually gives up on servers that are delivering files too
>>> slowly, so if you just wait, it should eventually either finish
>>> downloading (if it’s just going slowly), or re-try from a different
>>> server.
>>>
>> I left it to try for more than an hour and for several shorter - but
>> still very long - intervals. I have not seen it give up yet and suspect
>> that whatever the failure mode is it is not getting detected by MacPorts
>> infrastructure.
>>
>> I am not sure what to report to kernel.org since it downloads quickly
>> through my web browser (~30 seconds on my slow home connection and
>> faster elsewhere). I've tried this at least a couple of times with no
>> troubles, while the MacPorts download has failed consistently over a
>> dozen or so tries over three days now.
> MacPorts uses libcurl, so what happens if you try downloading the file
> with curl? If it gets stuck, you can probably pass it some debug flags
> to see what's going on. If not, the definitive tool for debugging the
> download problem would be wireshark.
curl (from MacPorts) works first time. port is still hanging, with an 
additional odd behavior on day 3 of this. This afternoon port decided 
that there were other dependencies of git-core which needed updating too:

$ sudo port install git-core
--->  Computing dependencies for git-core
--->  Dependencies to be installed: p5.16-error p5.16-net-smtp-ssl 
p5.16-io-socket-ssl p5.16-net-libidn p5.16-net-ssleay

where previously p5.12 was being used. I'm sure that there was no recent 
"port selfupdate" which might have affected this since the last time I 
tried. Not sure where the state is getting retained (or removed).

> As a workaround, you can add www.kernel.org to host_blacklist in
> macports.conf so you can update your ports in the meantime.
>
Thanks for the tip. I'll try this soon, but will poke a bit more at port 
first.

Regards,

                            - Tom