"Exited sync due to fetch errors" while fetching B2G code - build

Question

I am trying to prepare my first B2G build for my Intex Cloud FX phone using these steps. I found out that my phone's code is tarako from the Firefox OS Phones page. However, running ./config.sh tarako fails every time.
Although the above article does say the following:
Note: it is possible for config.sh to fail with git-related fetching
errors such as the following :
Fetching projects: 95% (118/124) error: Exited sync due to fetch
errors
This appears to be caused by a connection error on the Android repo
source repository. In this case, you will want to rerun config.sh.
After a short while, It will automatically resume where it left off.
You might have do to this several times until it finally fetches all
projects.
But, I've tried it several times and the process aborts with the same error every time.
Here's the log:
Get https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/b2g-manifest
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- 0:00:01 --:--:-- 0
curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 404 Not Found
Server does not provide clone.bundle; ignoring.
remote: Counting objects: 1725, done.
remote: Total 1725 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)
Receiving objects: 100% (1725/1725), 708.93 KiB | 62.00 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (1019/1019), done.
From https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/b2g-manifest
* [new branch] master -> origin/master
* [new branch] revert-203-bug1025788-v2 -> origin/revert-203-bug1025788-v2
* [new branch] v1-train -> origin/v1-train
* [new branch] v1.0.0 -> origin/v1.0.0
* [new branch] v1.0.1 -> origin/v1.0.1
* [new branch] v1.1.0hd -> origin/v1.1.0hd
* [new branch] v1.2 -> origin/v1.2
* [new branch] v1.2f -> origin/v1.2f
* [new branch] v1.3 -> origin/v1.3
* [new branch] v1.3t -> origin/v1.3t
* [new branch] v1.4 -> origin/v1.4
* [new branch] v2.0 -> origin/v2.0
* [new branch] v2.1 -> origin/v2.1
* [new tag] B2G_1_0_1_20130213094222 -> B2G_1_0_1_20130213094222
* [new tag] B2G_1_1_0_hd_20130530182315 -> B2G_1_1_0_hd_20130530182315
* [new tag] B2G_1_1_0_hd_20130530182315_BASE -> B2G_1_1_0_hd_20130530182315_BASE
* [new tag] closing-nightly -> closing-nightly
Your identity is: John Bupit
If you want to change this, please re-run 'repo init' with --config-name
repo has been initialized in /home/jbupit/b2g/B2G
Fetching project gecko.git
Fetching project moztt
Fetching project platform/hardware/libhardware
Fetching project platform/system/bluetooth
Fetching projects: 1% (1/84) Fetching project platform/external/safe-iop
Fetching projects: 2% (2/84) Fetching project platform/abi/cpp
fatal: unable to access 'http://sprdsource.spreadtrum.com:8085/b2g/android/platform/system/bluetooth/': Failed connect to sprdsource.spreadtrum.com:8085; Connection timed out
fatal: unable to access 'http://sprdsource.spreadtrum.com:8085/b2g/android/platform/hardware/libhardware/': Failed connect to sprdsource.spreadtrum.com:8085; Connection timed out
fatal: unable to access 'http://sprdsource.spreadtrum.com:8085/b2g/android/platform/abi/cpp/': Failed connect to sprdsource.spreadtrum.com:8085; Connection timed out
fatal: unable to access 'http://sprdsource.spreadtrum.com:8085/b2g/android/platform/external/safe-iop/': Failed connect to sprdsource.spreadtrum.com:8085; Connection timed out
fatal: unable to access 'http://sprdsource.spreadtrum.com:8085/b2g/android/platform/abi/cpp/': Failed connect to sprdsource.spreadtrum.com:8085; Connection timed out
fatal: unable to access 'http://sprdsource.spreadtrum.com:8085/b2g/android/platform/system/bluetooth/': Failed connect to sprdsource.spreadtrum.com:8085; Connection timed out
fatal: unable to access 'http://sprdsource.spreadtrum.com:8085/b2g/android/platform/external/safe-iop/': Failed connect to sprdsource.spreadtrum.com:8085; Connection timed out
fatal: unable to access 'http://sprdsource.spreadtrum.com:8085/b2g/android/platform/hardware/libhardware/': Failed connect to sprdsource.spreadtrum.com:8085; Connection timed out
error: Cannot fetch platform/system/bluetooth
Fetching project gonk-misc
Fetching projects: 3% (3/84) error: Cannot fetch platform/external/safe-iop
error: Cannot fetch platform/abi/cpp
error: Cannot fetch platform/hardware/libhardware
error: Exited sync due to fetch errors
Repo sync failed
What should I do? Is there another way of downloading the code?

Answer 1

I also ran into this - the server seems to be very unstable, or missing content at times
You may be able to piece together what you need from https://git.mozilla.org/?a=project_list&s=sprd&btnS=Search
You will need to edit the manifest XML with new URLs and change config.sh to use that.
The original sync was discussed in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=982360 and https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1014102