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bug#53668: Updating substitutes on LAN hosts dies unexpectedly
From: |
Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
bug#53668: Updating substitutes on LAN hosts dies unexpectedly |
Date: |
Thu, 12 May 2022 10:21:37 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.2 (gnu/linux) |
Hi,
Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> skribis:
> Maxime Devos <maximedevos@telenet.be> writes:
>
>> Ludovic Courtès schreef op wo 11-05-2022 om 16:58 [+0200]:
>>> However, this may well be this ‘guix publish’ bug that was recently
>>> fixed, whereby ‘guix publish’ without ‘--cache’ would send bogus HTTP
>>> replies:
>>>
>>> https://issues.guix.gnu.org/54723
>>>
>>> Could you confirm?
>>>
>>> Ludo’.
>>
>> Even then, the error message says ‘wrong type error ...’, shouldn't it
>> say something like ‘bogus HTTP’ or ‘bogus narinfo’ or such instead?
>
> I agree that a more accurate error message would have been useful. If
> you have the bandwidth for a patch, I'd be more than happy reviewing it
> :-).
HTTP response parsing happens in (web response) though, not in Guix, so
this is where things should be patch.
Currently that code pretty much expects it’s talking to a well-behaved
HTTP server. Changing it to gracefully deal with any kind of garbage
might turn out to be quite an effort.
Food for thought!
Ludo’.