Re: [bug-inetutils] Is bootstrap script failing everywhere?

[Simon Josefsson]

Mats Erik Andersson <address@hidden> writes:

> måndag den  9 maj 2011 klockan 12:36 skrev Simon Josefsson detta:
>> 
>> It works fine here -- although I use --gnulib-srcdir=$HOME/src/gnulib
>> --skip-po.  Could you try to check out gnulib manually and then point to
>> that checkout using --gnulib-srcdir?
>
> I succeeded once with a manual
>
>    git clone --depth 2 git://git.sv.gnu.org/gnulib.git
>
> then failed six times in a row with depth two or one,
> finally giving up on it. Trying without a depth option,
> the cloning grinds to a halt after resolving 51% (49800).
> this repeats itself tree times, cuasing full CPU load.
> I even tried downgrading to git-1.7.2.3 with some manual
> package intervention that followed suite. No success.
>
> In the only successful case I have never before observed
> such timedelay until the cloning could even begin.
> The past half a year that step was immediate.

Very strange!  Which system are you using?  I'm using git 1.7.2.5 from
Debian Squeeze and I check out regulary from git.sv.gnu.org and only
noticed problems some rare times.  I was able to complete a checkout
just now:

address@hidden:~$ time git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/gnulib.git
Cloning into gnulib...
remote: Counting objects: 114667, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (19271/19271), done.
remote: Total 114667 (delta 95589), reused 114387 (delta 95341)
Receiving objects: 100% (114667/114667), 19.08 MiB | 739 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (95589/95589), done.

real    1m5.680s
user    0m37.166s
sys     0m1.420s
address@hidden:~$ 

Hm.  Maybe you end up using git over http for some reason?  That will be
very inefficient for a large repository like gnulib.

Maybe you can download a snapshot by clicking 'snapshot' on this page:

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib.git;a=tree

Anyway, if you managed to get a checkout, then all is fine...

/Simon