Unable to update/install from git repository

[assapir]

Affected Version

yay v11.1.2 - libalpm v13.0.1

Describe the bug

When trying to install/update a devel package from github, it fails to install with the error

Fetching origin
fatal: remote error: 
  The unauthenticated git protocol on port 9418 is no longer supported.
Please see https://github.blog/2021-09-01-improving-git-protocol-security-github/ for more information.
error: could not fetch origin

This is due to the fact that git protocol seems not to be supported any more

Reproduction Steps

1. run yay -S piaware-git
2. accept everything

Expected behavior

Packages will be updated/install with latest commit

Output

==> Retrieving sources...
  -> Cloning piaware git repo...
Cloning into bare repository '/home/alarm/.cache/yay/piaware-git/piaware'...
fatal: remote error: 
  The unauthenticated git protocol on port 9418 is no longer supported.
Please see https://github.blog/2021-09-01-improving-git-protocol-security-github/ for more information.
==> ERROR: Failure while downloading piaware git repo
    Aborting...
 -> error downloading sources: piaware-git 
	 context: exit status 1 
	 

==> Making package: piaware-git 6.1.r2.g7c9a8d2-2 (Thu Mar 17 19:29:08 2022)
==> Checking runtime dependencies...
==> Checking buildtime dependencies...
==> Retrieving sources...
  -> Cloning piaware git repo...
Cloning into bare repository '/home/alarm/.cache/yay/piaware-git/piaware'...
fatal: remote error: 
  The unauthenticated git protocol on port 9418 is no longer supported.
Please see https://github.blog/2021-09-01-improving-git-protocol-security-github/ for more information.
==> ERROR: Failure while downloading piaware git repo
    Aborting...
 -> error making: piaware-git

[grandchild]

Hi there, this seems to be a packaging problem, not a yay issue. You should report this on https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/piaware-git instead of here. The package has to simply change the git:// into https://.

To fix packaging mistakes (which happen all the time) yourself run

yay -S --editmenu piaware-git

and select yes when asked if you want to edit the PKGBUILD and change the git+git:// into git+https://. Fixed.

[assapir]

Thanks! I wonder: if I will add a code that does that inside yay, will you accept this PR?

[grandchild]

Why should yay do this? The package should be fixed. Yay isn't the only AUR helper out there. If yay were to fix this (How would this even work as a general case? This is a far to specific error.) it would only disincentivise the package maintainer to fix the actual issue.

Also I'm not a maintainer here, so I can't really speak for whether a change like this would be likely to get merged.

And most importantly: I can see you haven't reported the issue on the actual AUR package yet. That would be the first and most simple thing to do.

[txtsd]

This issue should probably be pinned because users will come looking for it.

[reissecup]

Hi there, this seems to be a packaging problem, not a yay issue. You should report this on https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/piaware-git instead of here. The package has to simply change the git:// into https://.

To fix packaging mistakes (which happen all the time) yourself run

yay -S --editmenu piaware-git

and select yes when asked if you want to edit the PKGBUILD and change the git+git:// into git+https://. Fixed.

i had the issue with a different package, when i tried this it says "Edit PKGBUILD with?" and i don't know what that's asking me for.