Arun Isaac (2016-09-10 18:00 +0530) wrote: >> Why 'git-fetch'? There is a release tarball: >> >> https://unix4lyfe.org/darkhttpd/darkhttpd-1.12.tar.bz2 > > Yes, there is a release tarball. But, there is some server side issue > with the url. When I try to download it with wget, I get a "The server > name sent was not recognized" warning. wget ignores this warning and > moves on. The guix downloader fails completely. Should the guix > downloader be patched to ignore this warning as well?
Oh, indeed (sorry, I didn't try to do "guix download"). Actually I don't even know whether this problem can be fixed on the guix side (since the error comes from gnutls). [...] > I have initiated a conversation about this problem with the darkhttpd > developer. But, he has no idea what the problem might be. I'll have to > do some research on the Internet. Any ideas? Sorry, no ideas. All this TLS stuff is a complete mistery for me, I hope a more knowledgeable person will comment on this. > If you insist on a tarball instead of the git repo, we can add this > package after this tarball download url problem is fixed. No, no, I don't insist; this problem shouldn't block packaging, git-fetch will be OK, but I think there should be a comment explaining why the tarball is not used. -- Alex
