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bug#33261: [substitute-urls] Fails when given only "berlin.guixsd.org"


From: swedebugia
Subject: bug#33261: [substitute-urls] Fails when given only "berlin.guixsd.org"
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2018 21:48:55 +0100

Hi

On 2018-11-05 20:46, Leo Famulari wrote:
On Mon, Nov 05, 2018 at 07:13:22PM +0100, Björn Höfling wrote:
I would not consider this a bug: It clearly says that it is not a
proper URI. Also in the documentation all URLs/URIs are written in the
form of

PROTOCOL://SERVER/PATH.
I agree that it's not a bug, but perhaps it's more like a wishlist item.

Ideally, users would not need to concern themselves with implementation
details like protocol selection.

Guix could offer a more unified or simpler interface for authorizing and
selecting substitute servers, and it would handle server addresses,
communication protocols, and key authorization. Currently it's very
ad-hoc.

+1

It is error prone and hard to understand for newcomers what is going on behind the scenes.

I wrote this report from the perspective of a newcomer - ideally they should not receive any errors at all if you ask me.

Do you have any ideas how to implement anything better?

A newt-ncurses interface maybe?

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Cheers
Swedebugia






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