From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
Cc: 23666@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#23666: guix download fails for large files
Date: Tue, 31 May 2016 16:26:51 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160531202651.GA19070@jasmine> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160531195631.GA22897@solar>
On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 09:56:31PM +0200, Andreas Enge wrote:
> since I am regularly rebuilding texlive (who is not!), I would like to keep
> the source tarball on my machine, and whenever I garbage collect it from the
> store, add it back via
> guix download file:texlive-20150523-texmf.tar.xz
>
> On my Novena with a 32 bit processor and 4 GB of main memory, this fails with
> guix download: error: sendfile: Broken pipe
>
> The file itself has 1,8 GB.
>
> Downloading the file via http as part of "guix build" works, and
> "guix download file:" also works on my x86_64 machine with 8 GB of RAM.
As a temporary workaround, you could make the tarball a gcroot:
# ln -sf /gnu/store/...-texlive-20150523-texmf.tar.xz \
/var/guix/gcroots/texlive-texmf.tar.xz
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-05-31 20:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-05-31 19:56 bug#23666: guix download fails for large files Andreas Enge
2016-05-31 20:26 ` Leo Famulari [this message]
2016-06-01 12:39 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-06-05 20:58 ` Andreas Enge
2016-06-06 7:06 ` Ludovic Courtès
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