MONDAY, AUGUST 10, 2026
binutils — Proposed
binutils git: error 429 (too many requests)
Georg-Johann Lay encounters '429 Too Many Requests' error when fetching binutils-gdb, suspects scraper bots or recent Anubis updates.
Georg-Johann Lay is experiencing ‘429 Too Many Requests’ errors when attempting to ‘git fetch’ from the binutils-gdb repository on sourceware.org. He reports this on a cfarm machine and notes that he has not made an excessive number of requests, suggesting potential issues with scraper bot activity or recent changes to the Anubis service.
In the Thread
- proposer
Reports receiving '429 Too Many Requests' errors when trying to git pull from binutils-gdb repository.
“I am getting that error when I try to git pull from gjl@cfarm121:~/gnu/source/binutils-master$ cat .git/config [core] repositoryformatversion = 0 filemode = true bare = false logallrefupdates = true [remote "origin"] url = https://sourceware.org/git/binutils-gdb.git fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/* [branch "master"] remote = origin merge = refs/heads/master gjl@cfarm121:~/gnu/…”