On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 02:39:36PM +0200, Baptiste Demoulin wrote:
> Hello Guix,
> 
> I have installed the binary version of Guix on top of Fedora 38. I tried to
> `guix install glibc-locales`, but it fails at building openssl:
> 
> building /gnu/store/bfirgq65ndhf63nn4q6vlkbha9zd931q-openssl-1.1.1l.drv...
> / 'check' phasebuilder for
> `/gnu/store/bfirgq65ndhf63nn4q6vlkbha9zd931q-openssl-1.1.1l.drv' failed with
> exit code 1
> build of /gnu/store/bfirgq65ndhf63nn4q6vlkbha9zd931q-openssl-1.1.1l.drv
> failed
> View build log at
> '/var/log/guix/drvs/bf/irgq65ndhf63nn4q6vlkbha9zd931q-openssl-1.1.1l.drv.gz'.
> building
> /gnu/store/0bazzh5rl0wyw221m479ay6ilsarirlg-perl-gettext-1.07.drv...
> cannot build derivation
> `/gnu/store/90igbjibnh6xns9wycsypfy1x23ic1fz-python-minimal-3.9.9.drv': 1
> dependencies couldn't be built
> cannot build derivation
> `/gnu/store/8w8m1m6sm09r85rwndcmams4ssfx63cj-glibc-locales-2.33.drv': 1
> dependencies couldn't be built
> guix install: error: build of
> `/gnu/store/8w8m1m6sm09r85rwndcmams4ssfx63cj-glibc-locales-2.33.drv' failed
> 
> I could track down the error to a test failure, that seems to be related to
> expired certificates in the testsuite of openssl-1.1.1l.  This was
> apparently fixed in later versions of openssl
> [[https://github.com/openssl/openssl/issues/15179]].
> 
> Is there something I can do on my machine to properly install glibc-locales
> ?
> 
> Thanks a lot for your help !
> 
> bests,
> 
> baptiste

The binary install provides a known good snapshot (minus of course the
error you ran into), but as a rolling release your best option is to run
'guix pull' to get updated package definitions and then to run 'guix
install glibc-locales'.

Hope that helps!

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