bug#36499: 26.2.90; file-error spinner-1.7.3.el, Bad Request

[Stefan Kangas]

Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se> writes:

> Brady Trainor <emacs@tangential.info> writes:
>
>> On Fri, Jul 12 2019, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
>>
>>> So is the problem really that you can't access one of the package
>>> repositories when running within Docker?
>>
>> Individually, Emacs seems able to access elpa.gnu and melpa. But
>> something about the transitive dependency seems to break. I've heard
>> speculation that this could be a race condition, but that's a bit over
>> my head.
>>
>> With (package-install 'spinner), it works.
>>
>> With (mapc 'package-install '(spinner lsp-java)), it works.
>>
>> With (package-install 'lsp-java), it installs some dependencies
>> successfully, then gives the failure at spinner that I shared.
>>
>> And yes, I've only been able to reproduce in Docker. One the one hand,
>> maybe this is a failure in how Docker is being set up. On the other
>> hand, maybe this is a pathological example of some imperfection in
>> Emacs.
>
> Can you reproduce this using Emacs 27.1?  The discussion in this thread
> seemed to indicate this was due to a bug which is fixed in that version.

More information was requested, but none was given within 4 weeks, so
I'm closing this bug.  If this is still an issue, please reply to this
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bug report.

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas