Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add Icedtea 3.0.0pre09

[Ludovic Courtès]

Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> skribis:

> Actually, in this case it’s (again) the ETag header.
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> rekado in guix: wget -S --spider 
> http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/icedtea/archive/icedtea-3.0.0pre09.tar.gz
>
> [...]
>
> --2016-03-26 10:02:08--  
> http://icedtea.wildebeest.org/hg/icedtea/archive/icedtea-3.0.0pre09.tar.gz
> Resolving icedtea.wildebeest.org (icedtea.wildebeest.org)... 80.127.118.211
> Connecting to icedtea.wildebeest.org 
> (icedtea.wildebeest.org)|80.127.118.211|:80... connected.
> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 
>   HTTP/1.1 200 Script output follows
>   Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2016 09:02:18 GMT
>   Server: Apache/2.4.10 (Debian)
>   Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=icedtea-icedtea-3.0.0pre09.tar.gz
>   ETag: 1458585778.0
>   Keep-Alive: timeout=5, max=100
>   Connection: Keep-Alive
>   Content-Type: application/x-gzip
> Length: unspecified [application/x-gzip]
> Remote file exists.
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> Is this something we want the Guile HTTP client to be more tolerant
> about?

Yes.  This is fixed in Guile 2.0, commit
c5dac3595f42afbd76ab9110d7473bf4d16b0520.

I think we should backport this hack to (guix build download),
essentially through:

  (modules-set! (resolve-module '(web http)) 'parse-entity-tag …)

Thoughts?

Ludo’.