;;; retrieving non-local eggs works, but installing (without -r) doesn't:

$ cat /usr/share/chicken/setup.defaults 

(version 1)

(server
 (location "/tmp/chicken-install-testing/")
 (transport local))
(server
 (location "kitten-technologies")
 (transport http))
(server
 (location "call-cc")
 (transport http))

(map
 (data-structures 
  extras files foreign irregex lolevel ports tcp utils
  posix irregex setup-api setup-download
  srfi-1 srfi-4 srfi-13 srfi-14 srfi-18 srfi-69 
  ->) )
(alias 
 ("call-cc" "http://code.call-cc.org/cgi-bin/henrietta.cgi")
 ("kitten-technologies" "http://chicken.kitten-technologies.co.uk/henrietta.cgi"))


$ chicken-install -r socket
retrieving ...
  cp -r /tmp/chicken-install-testing/socket/* /tmp/trg/socket
cp: cannot stat ‘/tmp/chicken-install-testing/socket/*’: No such file or directory
connecting to host "chicken.kitten-technologies.co.uk", port 80 ...
requesting "/henrietta.cgi?name=socket&mode=default" ...
reading response ...
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 16:51:55 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.24 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.24 OpenSSL/0.9.9-dev DAV/2 SVN/1.7.8 PHP/5.4.13 mod_fastcgi/2.4.6
Connection: close
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: text/plain
reading chunks ....
reading files ...
  ./socket-features.scm
  ./socket-mod.scm
  ./socket-options.scm
  ./socket.h
  ./socket.meta
  ./socket.scm
  ./socket.setup
 socket located at /tmp/trg/socket
[klm@kth trg]$ chicken-install socket
retrieving ...


Error: (directory) cannot open directory - No such file or directory: "/tmp/chicken-install-testing/socket"