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Re: ftp Re: --with-store-dir and/or --localstatedir seem to be ignored


From: Ludovic Courtès
Subject: Re: ftp Re: --with-store-dir and/or --localstatedir seem to be ignored
Date: Thu, 21 May 2015 10:20:54 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux)

Alex Vorobiev <address@hidden> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> writes:
>
>> 
>> Alex Vorobiev <alexander.vorobiev <at> gmail.com> skribis:
>> 
>> > Thanks! I pulled the master from git and rebuilt/reinstalled guix. Now 
> I 
>> > don't see that error! But I do see another one:
>> >
>> > $ guix package -i bash
>> > looking for the latest release of GNU bash...FTP to `ftp.gnu.org' 
> failed:
>> > 530: User access denied.
>> 
>> This is annoying but harmless: ‘guix package’ is looking for the latest
>> Bash version available at ftp.gnu.org to tell you whether a newer one is
>> available upstream.  Here it cannot do that, so it just proceeds with
>> installation.
>
> Hi,
> How is it harmless? The error just causes the command to show the backtrace 
> and quit. It does not proceed with the installation.

I actually experience the same thing yesterday on a network that blocked
FTP, and noticed that this was indeed not working as intended.

Commit 820a403 fixes that (you can get it with “guix pull”.)

Thanks!

Ludo’.



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