[ocaml-platform] opam update problem

Louis Gesbert louis.gesbert at ocamlpro.com
Thu Jul 23 08:59:02 BST 2015


It does. You may even specify any custom command through the OPAMFETCH variable with the most recent versions. `OPAMFETCH=wget` works without having to uninstall curl.

> - Francois Berenger, 23/07/2015 09:49 -
> On 07/23/2015 09:29 AM, Thomas Gazagnaire wrote:
> >> I can if it doesn't have the '.' at the end of the URI.
> >
> > This is just pretty-printing.
> >
> > Try with -vv to see what command opam actually uses. It might be an issue with your version of curl. And maybe move the discussion to the issue tracker on GitHub[1] where it would be tracked more easily.
> 
> Sometimes uninstalling curl and installing wget is a workaround for such 
> problems.
> 
> However, I am not sure if opam supports wget.
> 
> > Best,
> > Thomas
> >
> > [1]: https://github.com/ocaml/opam/issues
> >
> >>
> >>> On Jul 22, 2015, at 3:19 PM, Thomas Gazagnaire <thomas at gazagnaire.org> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> I'm unable to run 'opam update' -- I get an error message "Could not update repository default". Running it with debug flag:
> >>>>
> >>>> $ opam update --debug
> >>>> ...
> >>>> Processing  1/1: [default: http]
> >>>> 00:00.397  PARALLEL                Collected task for job 0 (ret:256)
> >>>> 00:00.397  SYSTEM                  rmdir /var/folders/6p/sf2lk3297kb9sl_tpq6tckcw0000gn/T/opam-90980-dd682e
> >>>> 00:00.403  SYSTEM                  Could not download file at https://opam.ocaml.org/urls.txt.
> >>>> [ERROR] Could not update repository default
> >>>> ...
> >>>>
> >>>> The period at the end of the URL is suspicious but I have no idea why it is there or if that is the problem. Any ideas?
> >>>
> >>> Can you access that url using curl or wget?
> >>>
> >>> Thomas
> >>
> >
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