bug#22882: Failure of 'guix pull' from fresh install

[Rob Syme <rob.syme@gmail.com>]

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Thanks!

On Thu, 3 Mar 2016, 02:59 Efraim Flashner, <efraim@flashner.co.il> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 02, 2016 at 11:37:35AM +0000, Rob Syme wrote:
> > Note: Everything runs smoothly after importing the keys via 'guix archive
> > --authorize hydra.gnu.org.pub', but I thought that we should be able to
> > 'guix pull' without hydra. Perhaps I am mistaken...
> > -r
> >
> > On Wed, 2 Mar 2016 at 19:27 Rob Syme <rob.syme@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > I've just installed guix on a fresh Ubuntu 15.10 - guix (GNU Guix)
> 0.9.0.
> > >
> > > The first run of 'guix pull' fails. The log[1] includes the error:
> > >
> > > Starting download of
> > > /gnu/store/n7hw4dgm9qh1ihhb13jf5a1ll0wgf6ns-pkg-config-0.28.tar.gz
> > > From http://pkgconfig.freedesktop.org/releases/pkg-config-0.28.tar.gz.
> ..
> > > following redirection to `
> > > https://pkg-config.freedesktop.org/releases/pkg-config-0.28.tar.gz'...
> > > ;;; Failed to autoload make-session in (gnutls):
> > > ;;; ERROR: missing interface for module (gnutls)
> > > ERROR: In procedure module-lookup: Unbound variable: make-session
> > >
> > > Am I doing something wrong?
> > >
> > > Rob Syme
> > >
> > >
> > > [1] https://gist.github.com/robsyme/db66b14a47d6666a6697
> > >
>
> The problem is that from the time that 0.9.0 was tagged until now
> freedesktop.org switched all their downloads to https. IIRC gnutls isn't
> added to the environment unless needed for downloading or explicitly
> added. Also, pkg-config is an input for gnutls, so it becomes hard to
> download pkg-config using gnutls, when pkg-config is needed for gnutls.
> This is a case where `guix download
> https://pkg-config.freedesktop.org/releases/pkg-config-0.28.tar.gz`
> <https://pkg-config.freedesktop.org/releases/pkg-config-0.28.tar.gz> and
> then rerunning `guix pull` would take care of it.
>
> Since 0.9.0 we've "fixed" this by adding another source for pkg-config
> that doesn't (yet) use https.
>
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