From: raingloom <raingloom@riseup.net>
To: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: error: "cannot download for method git-fetch"
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2021 20:44:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210222204422.04cf0e1b@riseup.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YDKvLJ4MTpsRSvQR@jasmine.lan>
On Sun, 21 Feb 2021 14:06:20 -0500
Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 21, 2021 at 05:54:34PM +0100, Wiktor Żelazny wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 21, 2021 at 01:27:58PM +0100, Hartmut Goebel wrote:
> >
> > > Updating some other package, which is using http-fetch, works. So
> > > this seams to be related to git.
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Perhaps you’re behind a firewall that blocks connections that use
> > the git protocol?
>
> Perhaps, but most uses of Git sources in our packages fetch over HTTP
> or HTTPS, so ports 80 and 443. It's unusual for these to be blocked.
> The actual git:// protocol, which is rarely used, uses port 9418.
>
I'm not behind a firewall and have been getting the same (or at least
similar?) error. (So far I haven't saved any logs from it.)
Just a guess, but maybe it's caused by some packages using
string-append "v" and the updated can't figure out how to reverse
that???
Purely just guessing here.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-22 19:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-21 12:27 error: "cannot download for method git-fetch" Hartmut Goebel
2021-02-21 14:10 ` Joshua Branson
2021-02-21 16:54 ` Wiktor Żelazny
2021-02-21 19:06 ` Leo Famulari
2021-02-22 19:44 ` raingloom [this message]
2021-02-24 13:15 ` zimoun
2021-03-01 14:16 ` Hartmut Goebel
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