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Re: error: "cannot download for method git-fetch"
From: |
Leo Famulari |
Subject: |
Re: error: "cannot download for method git-fetch" |
Date: |
Sun, 21 Feb 2021 14:06:20 -0500 |
On Sun, Feb 21, 2021 at 05:54:34PM +0100, Wiktor Żelazny wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 21, 2021 at 01:27:58PM +0100, Hartmut Goebel wrote:
>
> > Updating some other package, which is using http-fetch, works. So this
> > seams to be related to git.
>
> Hi,
>
> Perhaps you’re behind a firewall that blocks connections that use the
> git protocol?
Perhaps, but most uses of Git sources in our packages fetch over HTTP or
HTTPS, so ports 80 and 443. It's unusual for these to be blocked. The
actual git:// protocol, which is rarely used, uses port 9418.