This issue can be present also on other layers or recipes: in this case, the related <code>git://</code> access should be changed or fixed. == Workaround == As per [https://git-scm.com/docs/git-config#Documentation/git-config.txt-urlltbasegtinsteadOf git documentation] it is possible to replace the git access to the https access using the following configuration:  git config --global url."https://github.com/".insteadOf git://github.com/ See more info [https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1722807/how-to-convert-git-urls-to-http-urls here]