bug#42286: SWH fallback fails (git-fetch)

[zimoun]

Hi,

On Fri, 10 Jul 2020 at 00:24, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> skribis:
>
>> Trying to download from Software Heritage...
>> Backtrace:
>>            4 (primitive-load "/gnu/store/s56y8npabah6jc1bqrhsac6wqb1?")
>> In ./guix/swh.scm:
>>    573:13  3 (swh-download "https://github.com/zimoun/hello-example?"; ?)
>>    224:22  2 (call "https://archive.softwareheritage.org/api/1/revi?"; ?)
>> In web/client.scm:
>>     563:0  1 (http-get "https://archive.softwareheritage.org/api/1/?"; ?)
>>     231:6  0 (tls-wrap #<closed: file 7ffff5f1b690> _ # _)
>>
>> web/client.scm:231:6: In procedure tls-wrap:
>> Error while printing exception.
>> builder for `/gnu/store/jn6f86hg9zyyhms1vn56hviv4m9yjm8j-git-checkout.drv' 
>> failed with exit code 1
>
> Should be fixed with commit a7696b9733d4ede9817a0a0accb5ce5b85d9a2d3.
> Let me know if anything’s amiss.

Cool! Works. :-)

I was almost there. :-) The missing trick was because the Guile bug
   <https://bugs.gnu.org/40486>
I was not aware and so the new "http-get*".

Is it worth to add the test in guix-build.sh?


All the best,
simon