Re: ftp Re: --with-store-dir and/or --localstatedir seem to be ignored

[Ludovic Courtès]

Alex Vorobiev <address@hidden> skribis:

> Thanks! I pulled the master from git and rebuilt/reinstalled guix. Now I 
> don't see that error! But I do see another one:
>
> $ guix package -i bash
> looking for the latest release of GNU bash...FTP to `ftp.gnu.org' failed:
> 530: User access denied.

This is annoying but harmless: ‘guix package’ is looking for the latest
Bash version available at ftp.gnu.org to tell you whether a newer one is
available upstream.  Here it cannot do that, so it just proceeds with
installation.

Perhaps we should allow users to somehow turn off this feature
altogether.  Thoughts?

> I do know that ftp connections are not allowed on my corporate network 
> for security reasons (http is fine). Is there any way to tell guix not to 
> use ftp repositories at all?

This particular feature (checking for newer upstream packages) is only
supported for GNU packages, and it’s ignored when it fails.

Substitutes are always downloaded over HTTP.

Source code for which no substitutes are available could be downloaded
either over HTTP, HTTPS, or FTP, depending on the package and mirrors.
I expect few are available solely over FTP, but for those, there’s no
workaround.

Then again, with substitutes enabled, you’re unlikely to stumble upon
such a case.

HTH,
Ludo’.