If the git client configuration is set as https url's instead of git prefix. It can't find the path of yocto-kernel-tools. I think the reason is additional string '/git/' in the https path. It didn't use to happen until the 30th of April.
Where is this url referenced publicly? Adding michael to cc, did the configuration change?
See Richard's question
Official address of kernel-tools see at : https://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/yocto-kernel-tools/ in "Clone" subsection/ ---------------- git://git.yoctoproject.org/yocto-kernel-tools https://git.yoctoproject.org/git/yocto-kernel-tools ---------------- If the git client configuration is set as https url's instead of git prefix, git client change git:// to https://, but does not change the steel part of the path. And they do not match. This git configuration is needed if the client is behind a proxy server. And this causes an error when downloading the repository.
The last change to the git web configuration was on 2016-06-10. The last update to the software was in January and shouldn't have changed functionality. I grepped the last year of server logs for https://git.yoctoproject.org/ and I find 936 lines with "GET /yocto-kernel-tools". All of them are response code 404: file not found. I grepped for successful https clones of yocto-kernel-tools and there are 624 of them that all look like - - [02/Mar/2017:08:27:30 -0800] "GET /git/yocto-kernel-tools.git/info/refs?service=git-upload-pack HTTP/1.1" 200 1051 "-" "git/2.9.3" I'm not sure what was happening but it doesn't appear that https://git.yoctoproject.org/yocto-kernel-tools has ever been successfully cloned. If we need clones of that path to work I can look into new configuration to allow it.
Richard, It appears your question has been answered.
We have two versions of the assembly of our image. Sliding night assembly and fixed. After April 30, the sliding assembly stopped assembling. The fixed version has a date one week earlier. In the recipe itself, we did not find any changes. We suspect that this is the first mistake of the kind, after which our assembly collapses.
I will add a setting for git config : [url "https://"] insteadOf = git://
As far as I can tell: a) The recipe has the correct url b) The urls listed on the webpage are correct and work This does mean you can't just swap git:// and https:// and have the urls work but that isn't expected or documented to work.