[Nix-dev] nix-update --channel broken on unstable?

Tue Aug 23 14:03:34 CEST 2016

Hi, it appears that the nix-update command is broken. See the output below.

$ nix-channel --update
downloading Nix expressions from ‘
https://nixos.org/channels/nixos-unstable/nixexprs.tar.bz2’...
downloading ‘https://nixos.org/channels/nixos-unstable/nixexprs.tar.bz2’...
[0/0 KiB, 0.0 KiB/s]
error: unable to download ‘
https://nixos.org/channels/nixos-unstable/nixexprs.tar.bz2’: HTTP response
code said error (22)
cannot fetch ‘https://nixos.org/channels/nixos-unstable/nixexprs.tar.bz2’

[maarten at maarten-laptop:~/cs/containerpilot-ui]$ curl
https://nixos.org/channels/nixos-unstable/nixexprs.tar.bz2
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
  "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
<head>
<title>Access forbidden!</title>
<link rev="made" href="mailto:eelco.dolstra at logicblox.com" />
<style type="text/css"><!--/*--><![CDATA[/*><!--*/
    body { color: #000000; background-color: #FFFFFF; }
    a:link { color: #0000CC; }
    p, address {margin-left: 3em;}
    span {font-size: smaller;}
/*]]>*/--></style>
</head>

<body>
<h1>Access forbidden!</h1>
<p>

    You don't have permission to access the requested object.
    It is either read-protected or not readable by the server.

</p>
<p>
If you think this is a server error, please contact
the <a href="mailto:eelco.dolstra at logicblox.com">webmaster</a>.

</p>

<h2>Error 403</h2>
<address>
  <a href="/">nixos.org</a><br />
  <span>Apache/2.4.18 (Unix) OpenSSL/1.0.2h PHP/5.6.24</span>
</address>
</body>
</html>

[maarten at maarten-laptop:~/cs/containerpilot-ui]$
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