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From: Hartmut Goebel <h.goebel@crazy-compilers.com>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: 26175@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#26175: guix download fails if filename contains "@"
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2017 23:30:35 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a4107fcf-e366-32a3-c907-03263e3acd23@crazy-compilers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wpbjsi4v.fsf@gnu.org>

Am 20.03.2017 um 23:22 schrieb Ludovic Courtès:
> To address this we’d need an extra command-line option in ‘guix
> download’ to specify the name to use in the store (similar to the
> ‘file-name’ field in <origin>.)
>
> So one would type:
>
>   guix download --name=foo.tar.xz mirror://…/kde-l10n-ca@valencia-16.12.3.tar.xz

IMHO this i not a good solution, since it puts the burden of handling a
non-obvious restriction to the user. This makes things complicated and
less-skilled discourages people. "guix download" should implement some
escape automatic mechanisms.

-- 
Regards
Hartmut Goebel

| Hartmut Goebel          | h.goebel@crazy-compilers.com               |
| www.crazy-compilers.com | compilers which you thought are impossible |

  reply	other threads:[~2017-03-20 22:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-03-19 18:06 bug#26175: guix download fails if filename contains "@" Hartmut Goebel
2017-03-20 22:22 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-03-20 22:30   ` Hartmut Goebel [this message]
2017-03-21  8:57     ` Ludovic Courtès

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