From: Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>
To: Arun Isaac <arunisaac@systemreboot.net>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add darkhttpd.
Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2016 20:44:43 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bmzv3b04.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cu7vay4djip.fsf@systemreboot.net> (Arun Isaac's message of "Sat, 10 Sep 2016 18:00:38 +0530")
Arun Isaac (2016-09-10 18:00 +0530) wrote:
>> Why 'git-fetch'? There is a release tarball:
>>
>> https://unix4lyfe.org/darkhttpd/darkhttpd-1.12.tar.bz2
>
> Yes, there is a release tarball. But, there is some server side issue
> with the url. When I try to download it with wget, I get a "The server
> name sent was not recognized" warning. wget ignores this warning and
> moves on. The guix downloader fails completely. Should the guix
> downloader be patched to ignore this warning as well?
Oh, indeed (sorry, I didn't try to do "guix download"). Actually I
don't even know whether this problem can be fixed on the guix side
(since the error comes from gnutls).
[...]
> I have initiated a conversation about this problem with the darkhttpd
> developer. But, he has no idea what the problem might be. I'll have to
> do some research on the Internet. Any ideas?
Sorry, no ideas. All this TLS stuff is a complete mistery for me, I
hope a more knowledgeable person will comment on this.
> If you insist on a tarball instead of the git repo, we can add this
> package after this tarball download url problem is fixed.
No, no, I don't insist; this problem shouldn't block packaging,
git-fetch will be OK, but I think there should be a comment explaining
why the tarball is not used.
--
Alex
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-10 17:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-09 19:56 [PATCH] gnu: Add darkhttpd Arun Isaac
2016-09-09 20:41 ` Leo Famulari
2016-09-10 5:19 ` Arun Isaac
2016-09-10 6:51 ` Arun Isaac
2016-09-10 7:10 ` Alex Kost
2016-09-10 12:30 ` Arun Isaac
2016-09-10 17:44 ` Alex Kost [this message]
2016-09-11 15:14 ` Arun Isaac
2016-09-11 19:20 ` Arun Isaac
2016-09-13 15:42 ` Leo Famulari
2016-09-13 17:09 ` Arun Isaac
2016-09-14 6:01 ` Arun Isaac
2016-09-14 21:28 ` Leo Famulari
2016-09-15 6:17 ` Arun Isaac
2016-09-15 15:23 ` Leo Famulari
2016-09-11 13:52 ` Ludovic Courtès
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