roswell fails trying to download quicklisp via http when using roswell for the first time

[fislysandi]

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question how can i force roswell to use https instead of http?

from my main machine

Environment

Fresh Install of Arch linux

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ros install sbcl

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How to reproduce the issue

ros install

Expected behavior

to install quicklisp

Actual result

infinite waiting for installation

[theneosloth]

Started running into this as well. Which is odd because I had a working roswell installation for weeks, makes me think it might be an upstream quicklisp issue.

I noticed that after about an hour of running ros init it does eventually succeed, but any package installation takes 30 min-1hour

This is on WSL2 Ubuntu using SBCL 2.4.1.nixos

[wojtyniak]

This is also true for installing scripts and their quicklisp dependencies. I have outgoing traffic to the port :80 blocked on firewall, so the following fails for me. Would it be possible to use something like ql-https by default?

❯ ros install fukamachi/cl-project
Installing from github fukamachi/cl-project
To load "cl-project":
  Load 1 ASDF system:
    cl-project
; Loading "cl-project"
To load "cl-emb":
  Load 2 ASDF systems:
    asdf cl-ppcre
  Install 1 Quicklisp release:
    cl-emb
Downloading http://beta.quicklisp.org/archive/cl-emb/2019-05-21/cl-emb-20190521-git.tgz
[1/3] System 'cl-project' found. Loading the system..Aborted during step [1/3].
Unhandled UIOP/RUN-PROGRAM:SUBPROCESS-ERROR in thread #<SB-THREAD:THREAD tid=259 "main thread" RUNNING
                                                         {7008830663}>:
  Subprocess with command "/opt/homebrew/bin/ros roswell-internal-use download http://beta.quicklisp.org/archive/cl-emb/2019-05-21/cl-emb-20190521-git.tgz /Users/ww/.roswell/lisp/quicklisp/dists/quicklisp/archives/cl-emb-20190521-git.tgz 2"
 exited with error code 2