Failed to clone https://github.com/composer/package-versions-deprecated.git via https, ssh protocols, aborting

[ribehbl]

I am trying to install dependencies of a symfony4 app.
composer install/update does not seem to work. I got an error : Failed to clone https://github.com/composer/package-versions-deprecated.git via https, ssh protocols, aborting

Error message:
`

• Installing composer/package-versions-deprecated (1.10.99): Downloading
  Failed to download composer/package-versions-deprecated from dist: The "https://api.github.com/repos/composer/package-versions-deprecated/zipball/dd51b4443d58b34b6d9344cf4c288e621c9a826f" file could not be downloaded: php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: Name or service not known
  failed to open stream: php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: Name or service not known
  Now trying to download from source

  • Installing composer/package-versions-deprecated (1.10.99): Cloning dd51b44

  [RuntimeException]
  Failed to clone https://github.com/composer/package-versions-deprecated.git via https, ssh protocols, aborting.

  • https://github.com/composer/package-versions-deprecated.git
    Cloning into '/tmp/app/vendor/composer/package-versions-deprecated'...
    fatal: unable to access 'https://github.com/composer/package-versions-deprecated.git/': Could not resolve host: github.com

  • git@github.com:composer/package-versions-deprecated.git
    Cloning into '/tmp/app/vendor/composer/package-versions-deprecated'...
    ssh: Could not resolve hostname github.com: Name or service not known
    fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

    Please make sure you have the correct access rights
    and the repository exists.
    `

PHP version: 7.2 ; Symfony: 4.4.9; Composer Version: 1.7.2

in composer.json:
"composer/package-versions-deprecated": "^1.10"

[Seldaek]

Looks like a network issue really? Can you still reproduce this?

[ribehbl]

Looks like a network issue really? Can you still reproduce this?

yes, I try and the error persist. I have the same error: fatal: unable to access 'https://github.com/composer/package-versions-deprecated.git/': Could not resolve host: github.com

[Seldaek]

Maybe try a different network/machine if you can.. or via vpn perhaps?

[NicolasCharpentier]

Hi @Seldaek

I know this seems completely unrelated to this project, but could we re open this ?

We have this error in our pipeline since a month, happens about once a day and always with this repository.

[Seldaek]

Very odd.. why is it even cloning vs downloading a zip?

[NicolasCharpentier]

Here is the full output

it did not succeed downloading the ZIP available there: https://api.github.com/repos/composer/package-versions-deprecated/zipball/b174585d1fe49ceed21928a945138948cb394600
(it's currently available)

But we can see that other repositories have timeouts too, I should open an issue somewhere else I guess (will update if I do)

[Seldaek]

Yeah sorry but network timeouts I cannot do much about.