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Paket Bootstrapper stopped working today

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Description

Paket Bootstrapper stopped working today, I’m not sure if it’s broken my a change in my company’s network configuration or if something happened on github.

Misc

I’m not sure if paket bootstrapper is provided by this project or not, I hope this is the right place to report.

Repro steps

Please provide the steps required to reproduce the problem

  1. Windows 7, powershell, run .\.paket\paket.bootstrapper.exe

Expected behavior

It downloads the latest version.

Actual behavior

There’s some sort of error in however it tries to determine the latest version.

λ .\.paket\paket.bootstrapper.exe
No version specified. Downloading latest stable.
Starting download from https://github.com/fsprojects/Paket/releases/download/CTYPE html>
<html lang=/paket.exe
The remote server returned an error: (404) Not Found. (Github)

Known workarounds

If I manually provide the version number it works.

λ .\.paket\paket.bootstrapper.exe 3.36.0
Version 3.36.0 requested.
Starting download from https://github.com/fsprojects/Paket/releases/download/3.36.0/paket.exe
Done.

Issue Analytics

  • State:closed
  • Created 7 years ago
  • Reactions:1
  • Comments:10 (7 by maintainers)

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1reaction
madhoncommented, Mar 3, 2017

So far ive found that updating the bootstrapper exe to one from the 3.36.0 tag has fixed the problem

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mreishuscommented, Mar 3, 2017

My old version of the bootstrapper now works without specifying a version. I’ll be sure to update. Thanks!

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