GNU bug report logs - #26175
guix download fails if filename contains "@"

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Message #14 received at 26175 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Hartmut Goebel <h.goebel <at> crazy-compilers.com>
Cc: 26175 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#26175: guix download fails if filename contains "@"
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2017 09:57:09 +0100

Hartmut Goebel <h.goebel <at> crazy-compilers.com> 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://…/kde-l10n-ca <at> 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.

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

Ludo’.

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