Error: could not download package: error decoding response body

[waynegm]

I'm trying to pixi-pack an environment on linux for windows. The CLI is:

pixi pack --create-executable --platform win-64 --environment default --ignore-pypi-non-wheel pixi.toml 

Process fails part way through with the message in the issue title. The debugging trace (-vvv) looks like:

2026-03-07T07:11:19.157415Z DEBUG Connection{peer=Client}: h2::codec::framed_write: send frame=Reset { stream_id: StreamId(193), error_code: CANCEL }
2026-03-07T07:11:19.157425Z DEBUG Connection{peer=Client}: h2::codec::framed_write: send frame=GoAway { error_code: NO_ERROR, last_stream_id: StreamId(0) }
2026-03-07T07:11:19.157431Z DEBUG Connection{peer=Client}: h2::proto::connection: Connection::poll; connection error error=GoAway(b"", NO_ERROR, Library)
Error: could not download package: error decoding response body

Here is the pixi.toml file I'm using (renamed because *.toml isn't accepted)

pixi_toml.txt

[waynegm]

In the end I was able to get it to work by adding the --use-cache option and re-running the command multiple times.