Re: Having trouble packaging DefaultEncrypt for Emacs

[Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>]

Alex Kost (2017-04-10 13:10 +0300) wrote:

> Chris Marusich (2017-04-08 17:21 -0700) wrote:
[...]
>> +(define-public emacs-default-encrypt
>> +  (package
>> +    (name "emacs-default-encrypt")
>> +    (version "4.3")
>> +    (source
>> +     (origin
>> +       (method url-fetch)
>> +       (uri (string-append
>> +             ;; A versioned, signed copy of this package is avialable on the
>> +             ;; home page, but 'guix download' fails to download it.
>> +             "https://github.com/emacsmirror/emacswiki.org/raw/master/jl-encrypt.el"))
>
> Why do you use this third-party unversioned file instead of the original
> source from the upstream? (it even has a GnuPG signature!):
>
>   https://www.informationelle-selbstbestimmung-im-internet.de/emacs/jl-encrypt4.1/jl-encrypt.el

Sorry, I failed to read your comment above the URL :-)

So the error is:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
Starting download of /tmp/guix-file.ugdVEh
From https://www.informationelle-selbstbestimmung-im-internet.de/emacs/jl-encrypt4.1/jl-encrypt.el...
ERROR: Bad media-type header component: text/plain

failed to download "/tmp/guix-file.ugdVEh" from "https://www.informationelle-selbstbestimmung-im-internet.de/emacs/jl-encrypt4.1/jl-encrypt.el"
guix download: error: https://www.informationelle-selbstbestimmung-im-internet.de/emacs/jl-encrypt4.1/jl-encrypt.el: download failed
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

IIUC, we had a similar problem before, and it is considered to be the
upstream problem.  Look at the following message, for example:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2015-09/msg00578.html

-- 
Alex