Re: Invalid nar signature

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

"Thompson, David" <dthompson2@worcester.edu> skribis:

> On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 4:51 AM, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
>> David Thompson <dthompson2@worcester.edu> skribis:
>>
>>> Despite that, I tried to compress the nar with bzip2 just for fun, but I
>>> ran into another problem:
>>>
>>>   warning: call to primitive-fork while multiple threads are running;
>>>            further behavior unspecified.  See "Processes" in the
>>>            manual, for more information.
>>>
>>> I'm running a REPL server in addition to the web server, but I imagine
>>> the web server also spawns additional threads to handle requests, so
>>> either way 'filtered-output-port' won't work here.
>>
>> (web server http) does not use threads so it should be OK.  But we’ll
>> see that afterwards.  :-)
>
> Ah, okay.  Even so, requiring a single-threaded application in order
> to use compressed/decompressed ports makes hacking on 'guix publish'
> inconvenient, as it eliminates use of the REPL.

Agreed.  We’ll probably need libbz2 bindings at some point.

Ludo’.