i ran into this a few weeks back, and i'm still having this grief.
I'm running:

$ bitbake -c fetchall core-image-sato

and it's perpetually failing trying to fetch the sat-solver package.
based on the .bb file, the fetcher should be using git:

...

SRCREV = "0a7378d5f482f477a01cf1690d76871ab8bdcc32"
PV = "0.0-git${SRCPV}"
PR = "r12"

PARALLEL_MAKE=""

SRC_URI = "git://github.com/openSUSE/sat-solver.git;protocol=git \
file://sat-solver_rpm5.patch \
file://sat-solver_obsolete.patch \
file://cmake.patch \
file://db5.patch \
file://sat-solver_core.patch \
file://fix_gcc-4.6.0_compile_issue.patch \
"
.. etc etc ...

but the resulting tarball is perpetually broken:

$ tar tvzf git2_github.com.openSUSE.sat-solver.git.tar.gz
drwxrwxrwx pokybuild/users 0 2011-09-20 14:45 ./
drwxrwxrwx pokybuild/users 0 2011-09-20 14:44 ./branches/
drwxrwxrwx pokybuild/users 0 2011-09-20 14:44 ./info/
-rw-rw-rw- pokybuild/users 240 2011-09-20 14:44 ./info/exclude
-rw-rw-rw- pokybuild/users 889 2011-09-20 14:45 ./packed-refs
drwxrwxrwx pokybuild/users 0 2011-09-20 14:44 ./refs/
drwxrwxrwx pokybuild/users 0 2011-09-20 14:44 ./refs/heads/
drwxrwxrwx pokybuild/users 0 2011-09-20 14:44 ./refs/tags/
drwxrwxrwx pokybuild/users 0 2011-09-20 14:44 ./hooks/
... snip ...
drwxrwxrwx pokybuild/users 0 2011-09-20 14:45 ./objects/pack/
-r--r--r-- pokybuild/users 177372595 2011-09-20 14:45
./objects/pack/pack-988f73d811514444fa8fed89532c75e67d4250f8.pack

gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file
tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

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is no one else seeing this? i've tried several times and this is,
at the moment, the only package that's causing trouble.

rday

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