Subject: Re: bug#27100: Unnecessary backtrace by guix/build/download.scm

From: zimoun <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2021 00:56:02 +0100

Hi,

On Wed, 18 Nov 2020 at 00:27, zimoun <[email-masked]> wrote:
> On Sat, 27 May 2017 at 13:36, Danny Milosavljevic <[email-masked]> wrote:
>> guix [env]$ ./pre-inst-env guix import pypi flex
>> Backtrace:
>
> [...] Ugly 
>
>> guix/build/download.scm:417:6: In procedure tls-wrap:
>> guix/build/download.scm:417:6: X.509 certificate of 'pypi.python.org' could not be verified:
>>   signer-not-found
>>   invalid
>>
>> Also, the most interesting information, which is which certificates it DID know and where it got them, is not printed.
>
> Well, the bug #27100 [1] is solved now, I guess.  First, the command
>
>   $ guix import pypi flex
>
> works now.  And the command:
>
>   $ guix import pypi kikoo
>   following redirection to `https://pypi.org/pypi/kikoo/json/'...
>   guix import: error: failed to download meta-data for package 'kikoo'
>
> fails gracefully.  What remains is “guix import pypi kikoo -r” but it is
> tracked by #44115 about the recursive option of all the importers.

I think this bug is now addressed and could be closed.  WDYT?

All the best,
simon