Eric Bavier transcribed 2.6K bytes:
> On Tue, 27 Feb 2018 19:19:31 -0600
> Christopher Lemmer Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org> wrote:
> 
> > I think Sourceforge may have gone through a recent upgrade that broke
> > some things:
> > 
> > Starting download of /gnu/store/k857xn4vnppdp5z853c92lfa7h5fhdii-golly-3.1-src.tar.gz
> > From http://tenet.dl.sourceforge.net/project/golly/golly-3.1/golly-3.1-src.tar.gz...
> > following redirection to `http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/golly/golly-3.1/golly-3.1-src.tar.gz?download&failedmirror=tenet.dl.sourceforge.net'...
> > ERROR: download failed "http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/golly/golly-3.1/golly-3.1-src.tar.gz?download&failedmirror=tenet.dl.sourceforge.net" 404 "Not Found"
> <...>
> > 
> > The file still seems to exist in the web interface.  Those links don't
> > look particularly wrong but they no longer resolve.  I'm confused.
> > 
> > Also observed on IRC:
> > 
> > <dustyweb> I can't seem to build Golly... all the sourceforge links aren't working here
> > <atw> dustyweb: weird, "git clone https://git.code.sf.net/p/golly/code" hangs
> > <atw> and eventually, "fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly"
> > 
> > I wonder what happened?
> > 
> 
> I saw another with sourceforge about a week ago, where the downloads
> would be redirected to some html that says something like "we're having
> trouble, try again later".  This would show up as a hash mismatch in
> guix.
> 
> Anyhow, this looks a bit different; just wanted to point out my own
> experience with sourceforge strangeness.
> 
> Is the source mirrored on hydra?
> 
> `~Eric

Same with some packages in the graph of Firefox which are hosted on SF:

@ build-started /gnu/store/iicfnfnxrfszdqc796szfs213map78g9-soxr-0.1.3-Source.tar.xz.drv - x86_64-linux /var/log/guix/drvs/ii//cfnfnxrfszdqc796szfs213map78g9-soxr-0.1.3-Source.tar.xz.drv.bz2

Starting download of /gnu/store/l69f6b2z51lxh30fgygapj1a61p1sja9-soxr-0.1.3-Source.tar.xz
From http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/soxr/soxr-0.1.3-Source.tar.xz...
following redirection to `https://netix.dl.sourceforge.net/project/soxr/soxr-0.1.3-Source.tar.xz'...
 ...ource.tar.xz  92KiB               354KiB/s 00:00 [##################] 100.0%
 @ build-succeeded /gnu/store/iicfnfnxrfszdqc796szfs213map78g9-soxr-0.1.3-Source.tar.xz.drv -
 Backtrace:
            8 (apply-smob/1 #<catch-closure 1c88200>)
            In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
                705:2  7 (call-with-prompt _ _ #<procedure default-prompt-handle?>)
                In ice-9/eval.scm:
                    619:8  6 (_ #(#(#<directory (guile-user) 1d52140>)))
                    In guix/ui.scm:
                      1489:12  5 (run-guix-command _ . _)
                      In guix/scripts/offload.scm:
                         704:22  4 (guix-offload . _)
                         In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
                             829:9  3 (catch srfi-34 #<procedure 21d3e40 at guix/ui.scm:542:?> ?)
                                 829:9  2 (catch system-error #<procedure 2166240 at guix/script?> ?)
                                 In guix/scripts/offload.scm:
                                    506:21  1 (process-request _ _ #<derivation /gnu/store/5xg251lla?> ?)
                                    In unknown file:
                                               0 (filter #<procedure 21d3de0 at guix/scripts/offload.sc?> ?)

ERROR: In procedure filter:
In procedure filter: Wrong type argument in position 2: #<unspecified>
guix build: error: build failed: unexpected EOF reading a line


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