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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Dmitry Nikolaev <cameltheman@gmail.com>
Cc: help-guix <help-guix@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Ampersand sign (&) in URL.
Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2016 15:35:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d1jg8cfp.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAH3JXcEka334NZ2FjmUNo6ZF30tkkqFXcJZDCSqVCvOdwXqr4w@mail.gmail.com> (Dmitry Nikolaev's message of "Tue, 4 Oct 2016 13:50:04 +0300")

Dmitry Nikolaev <cameltheman@gmail.com> skribis:

> But it's download URL contains ampersand sign (&).
>
> http://astralinux.com/images/fonts/PTAstraSans&Serif_TTF_ver1001.zip
>
> Guix returns
>
> build failed: invalid character `&' in name
> `PTAstraSans&Seif_TTF_ver1001.zip.drv'
>
> How do I escape & in URL so guix accept it?

Instead of escaping it, add a ‘file-name’ field in the ‘origin’ form
that does not contain the offending character:

  (origin
    (method url-fetch)
    (uri …)
    (sha256 …)
    (file-name "the-font.zip"))

HTH!
Ludo’.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-10-04 13:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-04 10:50 Ampersand sign (&) in URL Dmitry Nikolaev
2016-10-04 10:56 ` Hartmut Goebel
2016-10-04 13:35 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2016-10-04 14:43   ` Vincent Legoll
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2016-10-04 12:44 Dmitry Nikolaev

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