bug#21032: package.el acts pecularly

[Artur Malabarba]

You're right. I misread the original message. I thought the user had
configured an invalid server, but I see now they just specified an
invalid file in the (valid) server.

2015-07-12 16:03 GMT+01:00 Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>:
>> Actually, I think in that instance it was the server part that led to the
>> problem.
>
> Really?  I thought a 404 came from the remote server, which implies that
> we managed to contact the server (i.e. the DNS name points to a live
> machine).
>
>
>         Stefan