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Subject: bug#22774: Bootstrapping issue with HTTPS downloads
Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2016 18:28:43 +0200
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ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Court=C3=A8s) skribis:

> Fixed-output derivations for HTTPS downloads depend on GnuTLS.  However,
> pkg-config, one of GnuTLS=E2=80=99s dependencies, is now available exclus=
ively
> over HTTPS, which creates a bootstrapping issue, as reported by
> Christopher W Carpenter and others:
>
>   https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2016-02/msg00354.html

This is mitigated by the use of content-addressed mirrors over HTTP, as
in commit 40f788b9f6184436d9cc36a4dd8e7d101cd2f0ba (obviously a stop-gap
measure more than a real fix.)

Ludo=E2=80=99.