Re: pkg install from forge in windows

[Philip Nienhuis]

JohnD wrote
> Before I start looking at it, does anyone else have any issues with pkg
> install forge in Windows (Im running 4.2.0, however it happens in other
> versions as well)
> 
> If I try to install a forge package say:
> 
> pkg install bsltl -forge
> 
> I get:
> 
> error: pkg: could not download file bsltl-1.1.1.tar.gz from url
> http://packages.octave.org/download/bsltl-1.1.1.t
> 
> ar.gz
> 
> error: called from
> 
>     pkg at line 389 column 13
> 
> If I run the command repeatedly, it sometimes works ok, more often not
> 
> Running on  a linux box, I dont have that issue - it could be some network
> settings issue on my windows machine, so anyone else seeing a similar
> issue?
> 
> JD

(John: a lot of empty lines in you post!)

I can confirm this. It works still worse if I add the "-verbose" flag.

Sometimes it goes on a little (incl. compile) and then complains.
By coincidence I was debugging it today but didn't get much further.

E.g., "pkg install -forge -verbose octclip" gives:

:
'desc' undefined near line 30 column 43
error: called from
    install at line 242 column 5
    pkg at line 394 column 9
>

Up till L.227 of install.m all goes fine; then the error apparently happens
in  "create_pkgadddel".

In other cases urlwrite doesn't work. but I figured that may be due to or
company's firewall, but then again it did work a little earlier.
Entering the url that is handed to urlwite() in a browser I saw that I get
the http SF download page for a package, incl. the 5 sec delay during which
ads are shown.

Philip

Philip



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