[Chicken-janitors] #332: chicken-install throws an internal error in HEAD

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#332: chicken-install throws an internal error in HEAD
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 Reporter:  zbigniew        |       Owner:  felix
     Type:  defect          |      Status:  new  
 Priority:  critical        |   Milestone:  4.6.0
Component:  core libraries  |     Version:  4.5.x
 Keywords:                  |  
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 Hello esteemed team leader.

 I am having a reproducible error pulling down the sql-de-lite egg from
 either mirror, which I have tracked down to commit
 7bd92ff78681ddee949441114bcc8bd6bd6a4284.
 The symptom is below:

 {{{
 $ chicken-install -n -l http://code.call-cc.org/cgi-bin/henrietta.cgi sql-
 de-lite
 retrieving ...
 connecting to host "code.call-cc.org", port 80 ...
 requesting "/cgi-bin/henrietta.cgi?name=sql-de-lite&mode=default" ...
 reading response ...
 HTTP/1.1 200 OK
 Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 04:04:47 GMT
 Server: Apache/2.2.9 (Debian) DAV/2 SVN/1.5.1 mod_ssl/2.2.9 OpenSSL/0.9.8g
 Connection: close
 Vary: Accept-Encoding
 Transfer-Encoding: chunked
 Content-Type: text/plain
 reading chunks ...

 [pause of about 6 seconds]

 Error: (=) bad argument type - not a number: #f
 }}}

 Something in that commit 7bd92ff78 is causing the error; the parent commit
 works.  I have to assume it is an interaction between TCP and the new
 flonum milliseconds stuff.  I am using experimental HEAD
 (c6d6f125c1eed52dd9e8540fc4454eea95472b09) which still has this issue.
 Some other eggs I've tried seem to work, so perhaps this is because sql-
 de-lite is transferring 4MB.

 Unfortunately I haven't tracked down the exact cause yet, but hopefully
 this will help.

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Ticket URL: <http://bugs.call-cc.org/ticket/332>
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