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| -rw-r--r-- | guix/gnu-maintenance.scm | 15 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | guix/scripts/package.scm | 2 |
2 files changed, 15 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/guix/gnu-maintenance.scm b/guix/gnu-maintenance.scm index cde31aaa7b..89a01741ec 100644 --- a/guix/gnu-maintenance.scm +++ b/guix/gnu-maintenance.scm @@ -56,7 +56,20 @@ (response-code resp))) (case code ((200) - data) + (if data + data + (begin + ;; XXX: Guile 2.0.5 and earlier did not support chunked transfer + ;; encoding, which is required when fetching %PACKAGE-LIST-URL + ;; (see <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-devel/2011-09/msg00089.html>). + ;; Since users may still be using these versions, warn them and + ;; bail out. + (format (current-error-port) + "warning: using Guile ~a, which does not support HTTP ~s encoding~%" + (version) + (response-transfer-encoding resp)) + (error "download failed; use a newer Guile" + uri resp)))) (else (error "download failed:" uri code (response-reason-phrase resp)))))) diff --git a/guix/scripts/package.scm b/guix/scripts/package.scm index a9ed79184e..f14677c519 100644 --- a/guix/scripts/package.scm +++ b/guix/scripts/package.scm @@ -288,7 +288,7 @@ it." (catch #t (lambda () - (when (gnu-package? package) + (when (false-if-exception (gnu-package? package)) (let ((name (package-name package)) (full-name (package-full-name package))) (match (waiting (latest-release name) |