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Subject: Re: Where is the best place to download texlive-20170524-extra.tar.xz
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Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2018 08:44:04 -0600
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Thanks Mark.

That makes sense.

So I will just use the --no-check-certificate flag since the hash is =
used for verification in the end anyway.

This is really a nice feature being able to download packages from =
untrusted sites.

> On Nov 3, 2018, at 12:19 AM, Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> wrote:
>=20
> Hi Brian,
>=20
> When looking for a file that Guix is trying to download but which is =
no
> longer available at the expected URL, I normally just do a web search
> for the file name, in this case "texlive-20170524-extra.tar.xz".  Any
> site will do.  It needn't be a site you trust, because Guix always
> checks the sha256 hash anyway.
>=20
> If you "guix download" a file with the right name but the wrong
> contents, it will be successfully added to the store, but with the =
wrong
> hash string in the file name in /gnu/store, so nothing will ever use =
it.
> When you attempt to restart the build that failed, it will again try =
to
> download it, because the file it needs is not in the store.  The bogus
> file will be deleted the next time to run "guix gc".
>=20
> I did a web search for this file name, and found this:
>=20
> ftp://tug.org/texlive/historic/2017/texlive-20170524-extra.tar.xz
>=20
>      Mark