Re: Problems with downloading from https

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com> skribis:

> 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?

1.8 has long been deprecated, so let’s not worry about it.

>> 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/>.

Ah yes, it was actually merged earlier today.

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

Looks good, please push to ‘master’.

Thanks,
Ludo’.