Re: LuaRocks install failing to get the manifest

[Hisham <h@...>]

On 20 March 2015 at 15:43, Ryan Pusztai <rpusztai@gmail.com> wrote:
> It could be, but it is not feeling like it.
>
> I just ran this on my main machine (Ubuntu 14.04 x8_64, LuaRocks v2.2.0)
> ```
> luarocks install --from=http://rocks.moonscript.org/dev wsapi-xavante cvs-1
> ```
>
> It finished but was delayed by 30+ seconds.
>
> On the other system this is what I see:
> ```
> $ sudo luarocks install --from=http://rocks.moonscript.org/dev wsapi-xavante
> cvs-1
> [sudo] password for administrator:
> Warning: Failed searching manifest: Failed fetching manifest for
> http://rocks.moonscript.org/dev - Failed downloading
> http://rocks.moonscript.org/dev/manifest - timeout
>
> Error: No results matching query were found.
> ```

Are these machines both on the same network? By "something in your
end" I meant that it looks like a network issue.

-- Hisham



> On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 2:03 PM, Hisham <h@hisham.hm> wrote:
>>
>> On 20 March 2015 at 14:45, Ryan Pusztai <rpusztai@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > I have a script that installs about 20 rocks. I am getting a warning and
>> > it
>> > is going VERY slow. Is there a limit to asking for the manifest? It does
>> > this for each rock needing to be installed.
>>
>> I just downloaded the manifest-5.1.zip 20 times in a shell loop with
>> no problems (less than a second each time). luarocks itself keeps a
>> cache in between executions with a timestamp, and tries to get
>> last-modified via HEAD from the server before trying to GET the
>> manifest.
>>
>> Are you sure it's not something in your end?
>>
>> -- Hisham
>>
>