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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Alex Vorobiev <alexander.vorobiev@gmail.com>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: ftp Re: --with-store-dir and/or --localstatedir seem to be ignored
Date: Thu, 21 May 2015 10:20:54 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k2w25ok9.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <loom.20150521T043509-166@post.gmane.org> (Alex Vorobiev's message of "Thu, 21 May 2015 02:42:01 +0000 (UTC)")

Alex Vorobiev <alexander.vorobiev@gmail.com> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> writes:
>
>> 
>> Alex Vorobiev <alexander.vorobiev <at> gmail.com> skribis:
>> 
>> > Thanks! I pulled the master from git and rebuilt/reinstalled guix. Now 
> I 
>> > don't see that error! But I do see another one:
>> >
>> > $ guix package -i bash
>> > looking for the latest release of GNU bash...FTP to `ftp.gnu.org' 
> failed:
>> > 530: User access denied.
>> 
>> This is annoying but harmless: ‘guix package’ is looking for the latest
>> Bash version available at ftp.gnu.org to tell you whether a newer one is
>> available upstream.  Here it cannot do that, so it just proceeds with
>> installation.
>
> Hi,
> How is it harmless? The error just causes the command to show the backtrace 
> and quit. It does not proceed with the installation.

I actually experience the same thing yesterday on a network that blocked
FTP, and noticed that this was indeed not working as intended.

Commit 820a403 fixes that (you can get it with “guix pull”.)

Thanks!

Ludo’.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-05-21  8:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-15  4:07 --with-store-dir and/or --localstatedir seem to be ignored Alex Vorobiev
2015-05-15  9:03 ` Taylan Ulrich Kammer
2015-05-15 10:45   ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-05-15 14:03     ` Taylan Ulrich Kammer
2015-05-15 14:35       ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-05-15 14:58         ` Taylan Ulrich Kammer
2015-05-15 16:51           ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-05-15 20:22             ` ftp " Alex Vorobiev
2015-05-16 19:42               ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-05-21  2:42                 ` Alex Vorobiev
2015-05-21  8:20                   ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2015-05-19 22:17       ` Mark H Weaver
2015-05-20  7:27         ` Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer
2015-05-20 16:53           ` Mark H Weaver
2015-05-15 10:40 ` Ludovic Courtès

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