Re: Problems with downloading from https

[Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>]

Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com> writes:

> Mark H Weaver (2014-10-27 12:06 +0300) wrote:
>
>> ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>>
>>> 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?
>>
>> Alex committed this change, and it broke all https downloads in Guix,
>> leading to hydra build failures.  For example, see:
>>
>>   http://hydra.gnu.org/build/132928/nixlog/1/raw
>
> [...]
>
> OMG!  I'm sorry about that.  And thanks for fixing imlib2 license issue.
>
> I'm feeling guilty and I think I shouldn't touch anything outside
> "emacs" directory.  Sorry again.

No, not at all!  We all very much appreciate your contributions, Alex,
and you only did what Ludovic asked you to do.  Anyway, it's not as
though a few missing builds on Hydra is the end of the world.  That
happens quite regularly anyway, so please don't worry about it.

      Mark