Re: Time travel accident

[Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu>]

If you're able to find the derivation, you could set your system time and guix build /gnu/store/that.drv. this should not require network at all, so guix shouldn't complain.

Le 7 avril 2023 18:10:13 GMT+02:00, Konrad Hinsen <konrad.hinsen@fastmail.net> a écrit :
>Hi Josselin and Julien,
>
>Thanks to both of you for your suggestions!
>
>Josselin Poiret <dev@jpoiret.xyz> writes:
>
>> We have --without-tests=package already, see --help-transform for all
>> available package transformations.  The one annoying thing is that
>> disabling tests will change the derivation and you thus will not recover
>> the same store item (it might be bit-for-bit equivalent, but its path
>> will not be the same), preventing you from using substitutes either.
>
>For my case, that sounds OK. There are no substitutes for that
>three-year old commit any more, so I am building everything. And I don't
>care about bit-for-bit equivalence, I just want to run Python 3.8.2.
>
>> Though, I'm not sure it will help you here because openssl is built as
>> part of the `guix time-machine`'s build process, which afaik cannot be
>> transformed.
>
>Ahhh... there's the bad news.
>
>> By the way, we can also "fix the past" by using guix/quirks.scm.  Since
>
>Oohhh... There's always one more surprise in Guix!
>
>
>Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu> writes:
>
>> Changing your system date should let it build.
>
>Interesting idea! I tried, but it doesn't work: Guix itself complains
>about a certificate failure if I set the clock three years back.
>
>Maybe "guix time-machine" should have an option for setting the clock to
>the commit timestamp just for the build process...
>
>Cheers,
>  Konrad.
>