Re: Problems with downloading from https

[Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>]

[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 1104 bytes --]

Ludovic Courtès (2014-10-26 16:46 +0300) wrote:

> Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com> skribis:
>
>> Yes, I installed gnutls, but it didn't work because I didn't set the
>> right guile paths: “guix package --search-paths” recommends
>> "/usr/local/var/guix/profiles/per-user/<user>/guix-profile/share/guile/site/2.0"
>> but "gnutls.scm" is actually placed in
>> "/usr/local/var/guix/profiles/per-user/<user>/guix-profile/share/guile/site"
>> so ‘(use-modules (gnutls))’ failed for me.
>
> Oh, that’s a bug of the GnuTLS package: we should pass the right
> configure flag so that modules go to site/2.0.  Could you do that?

Yes, but I'm a little concerned.  Should it really be so?  What about
guile-1.8; isn't it supposed to use gnutls module as well?

> This should probably go to core-updates, since it’s going to be merged
> soon anyway.

As far as I can see there is no core-updates branch currently:
<http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/refs/>.

The patch is attached, so (if it looks good to you) should I push it to
master or create "core-updates" branch?


[-- Attachment #2: 0001-gnu-gnutls-Fix-path-to-a-guile-site-directory.patch --]
[-- Type: text/x-diff, Size: 1193 bytes --]

From 8fd2d01a276f3dc7922577d1bd153677dcea4a39 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2014 22:11:24 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] gnu: gnutls: Fix path to a guile site directory.
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

Suggested by Ludovic Courtès.

* gnu/packages/gnutls.scm (gnutls): Add '--with-guile-site-dir' configure
  flag.
---
 gnu/packages/gnutls.scm | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/gnu/packages/gnutls.scm b/gnu/packages/gnutls.scm
index 1660588..7e9b85e 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/gnutls.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/gnutls.scm
@@ -77,6 +77,11 @@ specifications.")
                "1krx33ab2ijwfz71f1ba8labxfsic7jhlhv6rvjsyw566jj9a3d2"))
              (patches (list (search-patch "gnutls-server-name-fix.patch")))))
     (build-system gnu-build-system)
+    (arguments
+     '(#:configure-flags
+       (list (string-append "--with-guile-site-dir="
+                            (assoc-ref %outputs "out")
+                            "/share/guile/site/2.0"))))
     (native-inputs
      `(("pkg-config" ,pkg-config)))
     (inputs
-- 
2.1.2