Turns out this can be sovled by using Arduino-ESP32 at commit 4638628873a061c36faffebe4d146d13f960076d (tag: 1.0.4)

Hi, I am using the default CameraWebServer.ino sample that comes with Arduino-ESP32. It works and detects my face only to crash after that upon calling `free` (see code below) If I simply disable the calls to free (which I know I probably really should not do) then the app works fine. box_array_t *n...

I downloaded that one before as well but it still tried to download stuff.

Now if this completes. I will have data in ~/Downloads/esp-idf/ and ~/.espressif
Do I need to copy them both if I move to a different system or can I just copy the esp-idf folder?

You are correct.
Apparently it is downloading more stuff again.
This could take anything from minutes to a few days.
Will try again after that.

Is there a local mirror (or single package download) anywhere.
The blockade is affecting a lot of people.

Hi, First off, Github is now as good as blocked in Shenzhen, and when it does work the connection gets cut ever few minutes, so I spent more than 4 days to download esp-idf and then run `./install.sh` which just downloads more stuff. As a Chinese company, you should probably provide local mirrors fo...