Re: [PATCH] zlib: bump to 1.2.8.

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

Cyril Roelandt <tipecaml@gmail.com> skribis:

> On 05/26/2013 10:00 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> Cyril Roelandt<tipecaml@gmail.com>  skribis:
>>
>>> On 05/23/2013 05:19 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>>>
>>>> Did you use --no-substitutes?
>>>>
>>>
>>> No, but anyway I can't use the substituter on x86.
>>
>> You can: the tar.gz is architecture-independent, and it’s the exact same
>> regardless of the architecture (technically, it’s a “fixed-output
>> derivation”.)
>>
>> So ‘guix build -S foo’ should by default try to go through the
>> substituter.  If that is not the case, it may be a bug.
>>
>> Could you check what happens?
>>
>
> IIRC, I noticed the issue in zlib because Guix failed to download it
> when I tried to install gnutls. I could not reproduce the issue though
> :/

Perhaps if you do:

  guix gc --delete `guix build -S zlib`

that will remove your copy of the zlib source from the store.

Then you can try again to see if the substituter is used:

  guix build -S zlib

Ludo’.