dhcpcd-discuss

Hi Ben

On 27/04/2020 07:30, Ben Woods wrote:
> Hi Roy,
>
> I am having a few issues using the dhcpcd git repo, and I was hoping you could 
> help me diagnose them. I am unsure if these 2 issues are related or not.
>
> 1. Unable to download recent commit - file appears to be truncated (too small)
>
> $ curl -O 
> "https://roy.marples.name/cgit/dhcpcd.git/snapshot/dhcpcd-1e29ac03a30a4da556e1e9ad16af7b7872d6d7b0.tar.xz";
>
> $ ls -lah dhcpcd-1e29ac03a30a4da556e1e9ad16af7b7872d6d7b0.tar.xz
> -rw-r--r--  1 woodsb02  wheel    48K 27 Apr 14:26 
> dhcpcd-1e29ac03a30a4da556e1e9ad16af7b7872d6d7b0.tar.xz
>
> $ tar xzf dhcpcd-1e29ac03a30a4da556e1e9ad16af7b7872d6d7b0.tar.xz
> dhcpcd-1e29ac03a30a4da556e1e9ad16af7b7872d6d7b0/configure: Lzma library error: 
>   No progress is possible
> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors.

Try using J rather then z

$ tar xJf dhcpcd-1e29ac03a30a4da556e1e9ad16af7b7872d6d7b0.tar.xz

Works fine.

> 2. Unable to clone git repo
>
> $ git clone git://roy.marples.name/dhcpcd.git <http://roy.marples.name/dhcpcd.git>
> Cloning into 'dhcpcd'...
> fatal: unable to connect to roy.marples.name <http://roy.marples.name>:
> roy.marples.name <http://roy.marples.name>[0: 81.108.15.115]: errno=Connection 
> refused

This is now resolved, thanks for the heads up.

> roy.marples.name <http://roy.marples.name>[1: 2001:470:690c:1::61]: errno=No 
> route to host

Hmmmm, how did that happen?
I've re-uploaded a fixed DNS zone.

Roy