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Subject: bug#33151: 'guix substitute' returns a 504 error without trying to
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Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2018 16:08:19 +0100
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To: Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>
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Ludovic Court=C3=A8s <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

> I think my first thought was that the problem (narinfo available but
> corresponding nar missing) was mostly due to our peculiar nginx setup on
> mirror.hydra.gnu.org: this cannot happen under normal circumstances
> because =E2=80=98guix publish=E2=80=99 really honors the expiry it sets o=
n narinfos.
>
> That said, we could fix =E2=80=98process-substitution=E2=80=99 in (guix s=
cripts
> substitute) to try other nar URLs (if any) upon failure.
>
> IMO such a fix is not =E2=80=9Chigh-priority=E2=80=9D for the reason I ga=
ve above, but
> OTOH it can be helpful to better cope with the sad reality of situations
> like the one we=E2=80=99re in.
>
> Thoughts?

I agree that fixing 'process-substitution' would be nice even though
it's not a high priority issue.

> Thanks for the heads-up, and sorry for hitting the =E2=80=9Cclose=E2=80=
=9D button too
> quickly!

No problem ;)  I also removed the "fixed" tag.

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