so it appears that the http git clone for ipxe is a lot more stable than the git:// URI.

.gitignore

@@ -8,7 +8,11 @@
 /overlay
 !/overlay/x86_64
 !/overlay/i686
-!/overlay/etc/
+!/overlay/etc
+extra/templates/overlay
+!extra/templates/overlay/x86_64
+!extra/templates/overlay/i686
+!extra/templates/overlay/etc
 # The default doesn't store these in the git working dir,
 # but better safe than sorry.
 /root.x86_64

bdisk/ipxe.py

@@ -21,7 +21,8 @@ def buildIPXE(conf):
     srcdir = build['srcdir']
     embedscript = build['dlpath'] + '/EMBED'
     ipxe_src = srcdir + '/ipxe'
-    ipxe_git_uri = 'git://git.ipxe.org/ipxe.git'
+    #ipxe_git_uri = 'git://git.ipxe.org/ipxe.git'
+    ipxe_git_uri = 'http://git.ipxe.org/ipxe.git'
     print('{0}: [IPXE] Prep/fetch sources...'.format(
                                         datetime.datetime.now()))
     # Get the source

extra/pre-build.d/etc/locale.conf

@@ -1,14 +1,14 @@
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
-LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
+#LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
-LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
+#LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
-LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
+#LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
-LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
+#LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
-LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
+#LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
-LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
+#LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
-LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
+#LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
-LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
+#LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
-LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
+#LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
-LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
+#LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
-LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
+#LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
-LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
+#LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
-LC_ALL=
+#LC_ALL=

extra/pre-build.d/root/packages.both

@@ -280,6 +280,7 @@ stress
 sucrack
 symlinks
 sysstat
+systemd-sysvcompat
 tcpdump
 tcpslice
 tcptraceroute