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

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Package: guix;

Reported by: Hartmut Goebel <h.goebel <at> crazy-compilers.com>

Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2017 18:07:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Hartmut Goebel <h.goebel <at> crazy-compilers.com>

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From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Hartmut Goebel <h.goebel <at> crazy-compilers.com>
Cc: 26175 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#26175: [bug#36976] [PATCH 1/1] download: Map file-name characters not allowed in store.
Date: Sun, 08 Sep 2019 22:07:10 +0200

Hartmut Goebel <h.goebel <at> crazy-compilers.com> skribis:

> Am 04.09.19 um 12:32 schrieb Ludovic Courtès:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Hartmut Goebel <h.goebel <at> crazy-compilers.com> skribis:
>>
>>>    (origin
>>>      (method url-fetch)
>>>      (uri (string-append "mirror://kde//Attic/applications/"
>>>                          version "/src/kde-l10n/"
>>>                          "kde-l10n-ca <at> valencia-" version ".tar.xz"))
>> In this case just add a ‘file-name’ field.  I think that’s a reasonable
>> expectation.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ludo’.
>
> Agreed. WDYT about adding this as a hint when the error shows up?
>
> How can I catch the "error: invalid character `@' in name" in guix build?

Unfortunately it cannot really be caught.  I mean, you could catch
‘&store-protocol-error’ error conditions, but then the error message is
just a string, there’s no error code you can compare against.

Ludo’.
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