From: Nils Gillmann <niasterisk@grrlz.net>
To: 22908@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#22908: guix download choices (unfonts -> upstream, archive.org bugged) and my alternatives.
Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2016 16:56:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mvqegrsz.fsf@grrlz.net> (raw)
This references thread
"fonts.scm -> packaging "un-fonts", download isses"
on guix-devel and it classifies as a bug.
It's a bug upstream, replicated by archive.org and preventing me
from finishing my work.
Long story short, I try to package un-fonts, which sits on a
server which is configured in a way that it gives us a mime type
for the package which is invalid (.gz). Now somebody could make
guix download function to simply ignore that, but as I don't like
to do that with only this one known case at hand, my ideas are:
- download the file to sdf.org where it will sit until something
happens to the entire internet and sdf.org disappears (they
have been around since 84/87).
- upload the individual file to archive.org as the simple
waybackmachine is not smart enough to fix the mime issue of the
original server.
This is a bug, because it prevents me from using guix download,
and guix download from functioning in a way where it must be
altered to adopt to the incompetence of some domain/server
admin.
what do you think?
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-04 15:56 Nils Gillmann [this message]
2016-03-06 13:36 ` bug#22908: guix download choices (unfonts -> upstream, archive.org bugged) and my alternatives Ludovic Courtès
2016-03-06 15:12 ` Nils Gillmann
2016-10-10 21:32 ` bug#22908: fixed ng0
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