Re: Feature request / patch: dependency-only prerequisites

[Christof Warlich]

Am 04.01.20 um 21:55 schrieb Paul Smith:

> Hm, this worked fine for me:
>
>   $ git ls-remote git://git.sv.gnu.org/gnulib
>     ...list of branches...
>
> Perhaps your system is sequestered behind some sort of firewall that will
> not allow the git: protocol (port 9418 IIRC) to pass through?  Almost all
> firewalls allow HTTPS so that could explain it.
>
> Can you try "git ls-remote https://git.sv.gnu.org/git/gnulib" and see if
> that works, so we can know if it's the protocol or the hostname that is the
> problem?
>

Ok, access to git.sv.gnu.org/git/gnulib through https works fine from here.

But not being able to to get access through the git protocol doesn't seem
to be a firewall issue, as a traceroute to that host on port 9418 using TCP
succeeds (Note that git.sv.gnu.org resolves to 209.51.188.201):

$ sudo traceroute -T -p9418  git.sv.gnu.org
traceroute to git.sv.gnu.org (209.51.188.201), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
 1  fritz.box (192.168.0.1)  2.417 ms  4.279 ms  4.299 ms
 2  speedport.ip (192.168.2.1)  9.599 ms  10.755 ms  10.771 ms
 3  62.155.243.150 (62.155.243.150)  12.441 ms  13.810 ms  13.850 ms
 4  217.5.116.174 (217.5.116.174)  16.465 ms  17.113 ms  17.426 ms
 5  217.5.116.174 (217.5.116.174)  18.399 ms  19.095 ms  19.465 ms
 6  62.157.249.186 (62.157.249.186)  20.256 ms  29.602 ms  29.229 ms
 7  ae-1.r25.frnkge08.de.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.4.16)  31.525 ms  31.995 ms  32.539 ms
 8  ae-8.r22.asbnva02.us.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.4.96)  120.531 ms  120.895 ms  121.619 ms
 9  ae-1.r05.asbnva02.us.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.2.20)  121.619 ms  121.294 ms  121.947 ms
10  192.80.17.94 (192.80.17.94)  121.965 ms  123.297 ms  125.303 ms
11  mass-ix.fsf.org (206.53.143.61)  126.001 ms  125.002 ms  102.780 ms
12  209.51.188.201 (209.51.188.201)  103.166 ms  103.095 ms  103.577 ms

Thus, everything looks perfectly fine so far. But the following still fails:

$ git ls-remote git://git.sv.gnu.org/git/gnulib
fatal: remote error: access denied or repository not exported: /git/gnulib

This rather looks like a permission issue to me. Anyway, I'm going to try the same
on Tuesday at work, I'm really curious to find out what's wrong here.