Re: Wrongly cached eggs

On Thu, 14 Aug 2025 21:07:43 +0200 Mario Domenech Goulart via Chicken-users <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, 13 Aug 2025 19:43:19 +0200 Mario Domenech Goulart via Chicken-users <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> tl;dr: Some eggs have been wrongly cached and some caches are still in a
>> broken state (see more details below).  To work around the issue when
>> installing eggs with chicken-install, set call-cc as the primary server
>> in the $PREFIX/share/chicken/setup.defaults file (i.e., put
>> `(server "call-cc")' _before_ `(server "kitten-technologies")'.  You
>> might need to run `chicken-install -purge` to remove broken local caches.
>>
>> Due to what we believe to have been a glitch in GitHub, some eggs hosted
>> there have been incorrectly cached on the 8th of August.  During some
>> hours of that day, GitHub seems to have served .release-info files from
>> wrong branches.
>>
>> Some versions of some eggs are CHICKEN major version-specific, and they
>> use branches as a way to map releases to their corresponding compatible
>> CHICKEN version.  Since GitHub served .release-info files from wrong
>> branches, that compatibility map was broken.
>>
>> The following eggs have been affected:
>>
>> * concurrent-native-callbacks
>> * gochan
>> * sendfile
>>
>> sendfile is particularly problematic because many eggs depend on it and
>> the sendfile version for CHICKEN 6 ended up being cached for CHICKEN 5,
>> which leads to breakages, as the sendfile for CHICKEN 6 is not
>> compatible with CHICKEN 5.
>>
>> The caches in the call-cc.org server have been fixed, but at the time of
>> this writing our main egg server (chicken.kitten-technologies.co.uk) is
>> still serving wrongly cached eggs.
>>
>> The content of the git repositories [0] and egg tarballs [1] have still
>> not been fixed (they should be fixed in the next days).
>>
>> [0] https://wiki.call-cc.org/how-to-obtain-the-source-code-of-eggs#all-eggs
>> [1] https://code.call-cc.org/egg-tarballs/
>>
>> See the suggested workaround in the tl;dr to make chicken-install fetch
>> eggs from the call-cc.org server, whose caches have been fixed.
>>
>> Apologies for the inconveniences this issue might have caused to your
>> workflows.
>
> Update: the content of the git repositories [0] and egg tarballs [1] have
> been fixed.
>
> [0] https://wiki.call-cc.org/how-to-obtain-the-source-code-of-eggs#all-eggs
> [1] https://code.call-cc.org/egg-tarballs/

Update: the caches in the main egg server have been fixed.  With that,
all cache-related problems reported in this thread have been fixed.

All the best.
Mario
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