bug-guix
[Top][All Lists]
Advanced

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

bug#26175: guix download fails if filename contains "@"


From: Ludovic Courtès
Subject: bug#26175: guix download fails if filename contains "@"
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2017 09:57:09 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1 (gnu/linux)

Hartmut Goebel <address@hidden> skribis:

> 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://…/address@hidden
>
> 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.

Oh right, that’s another possibility, and I agree it’d be better.

Ludo’.





reply via email to

[Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread]