failing downloads with dcmtk

[finetjul]

With slicer dashboards, we have frequent (>2x a week?) dashboards that fail the step of downloading dcmtk.
I suspect that part of the reason is because the download uses the http protocol.
Would it be possible for the offis team to add the git protocol as a way to access the dcmtk repo?
If it is not feasible, then I guess we can clone the official repo on github/commontk and use that one instead, hopefully it will solve our download failure.

[trabs]

Hi,

Can you give any specific errors? git over http places most of the logic onto the client, so it should be not too old -- maybe it's worth checking the version and update if necessary.

Enabling the git protocol is an option I will discuss with the team.

[finetjul]

Here is an example: http://www.cdash.org/slicer4/viewBuildError.php?buildid=1096
git version 1.5.4.3, is it too old ?
Is there a specific time in the day when your server reboots/backup

Logs for reference:
error: Unable to find 14950b7e97a746f94938bebd62779a3753c18ca1 under http://git.dcmtk.org/dcmtk.git
Cannot obtain needed blob 14950b7e97a746f94938bebd62779a3753c18ca1
while processing commit 6e9ea87.
error: Fetch failed.

CMake Error at DCMTK-cmake/tmp/DCMTK-gitclone.cmake:19 (message):

Failed to clone repository: 'http://git.dcmtk.org/dcmtk.git'

[ 42%] No patch step for 'DCMTK'
[ 42%] No update step for 'DCMTK'
cd: 1: can't cd to /.../Slicer-build-64bits-QT4.7-PythonQt-With-Tcl-CLI-Release-nightly/CTK-build/DCMTK
[ 42%] Performing configure step for 'DCMTK'

[trabs]

We internally had problems also with a version 1.5.xxx which is from 2008 it seems, so this might be the problem.

Nevertheless I will set up a git protocol server as an alternative since it is also more efficient than using http and very easy to configure. I am pretty busy with another task at the moment, but you can probably expect it this week.

[finetjul]

Sounds like a great plan. It's also good to know about these http issues with git.
Thanks !

[trabs]

The git protocol should now be available for dcmtk, i.e.

git clone git://git.dcmtk.org/dcmtk.git

should work now :-)

[finetjul]

I'm having the same failure on different machines:
$ git clone git://git.dcmtk.org/dcmtk.git
Cloning into dcmtk...
git.dcmtk.org[0: 134.106.52.157]: errno=No error
fatal: unable to connect a socket (No error)

[trabs]

Oops, that's a classic one...forgot to open the firewall on port 9418 for the world outside OFFIS ;-) Please try again, sorry for inconvenience.

[finetjul]

Fantastic, that works !
Thanks, let's hope our dashboards will be ok with it now.