Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add darkhttpd.

[Alex Kost]

Arun Isaac (2016-09-10 18:00 +0530) wrote:

>> Why 'git-fetch'?  There is a release tarball:
>>
>> https://unix4lyfe.org/darkhttpd/darkhttpd-1.12.tar.bz2
>
> Yes, there is a release tarball. But, there is some server side issue
> with the url. When I try to download it with wget, I get a "The server
> name sent was not recognized" warning. wget ignores this warning and
> moves on. The guix downloader fails completely. Should the guix
> downloader be patched to ignore this warning as well?

Oh, indeed (sorry, I didn't try to do "guix download").  Actually I
don't even know whether this problem can be fixed on the guix side
(since the error comes from gnutls).

[...]
> I have initiated a conversation about this problem with the darkhttpd
> developer. But, he has no idea what the problem might be. I'll have to
> do some research on the Internet. Any ideas?

Sorry, no ideas.  All this TLS stuff is a complete mistery for me, I
hope a more knowledgeable person will comment on this.

> If you insist on a tarball instead of the git repo, we can add this
> package after this tarball download url problem is fixed.

No, no, I don't insist; this problem shouldn't block packaging,
git-fetch will be OK, but I think there should be a comment explaining
why the tarball is not used.

-- 
Alex