bug#30157: texlive-20170524-texmf.tar.xz' failed: 410, "Gone"

[ng0]

Mathieu Lirzin transcribed 2.4K bytes:
> Hello,
> 
> ng0 <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Mathieu Lirzin transcribed 1.0K bytes:
> >> 
> >> While building my system configuration after a ‘guix pull’ with guix
> >> "d36d4c55c4a3faf47ee09e1010cb6617c6e39a48", I encountered the following
> >> error.
> >> 
> >> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> >> Téléchargement de « 
> >> https://mirror.hydra.gnu.org/guix/nar/5rnvmy02yazy8iwaa91kijbbqp8qmflz-texlive-20170524-texmf.tar.xz
> >>  »...
> >> guix substitute: error: download from 
> >> 'https://mirror.hydra.gnu.org/guix/nar/5rnvmy02yazy8iwaa91kijbbqp8qmflz-texlive-20170524-texmf.tar.xz'
> >>  failed: 410, "Gone"
> >> guix system: error: build failed: some substitutes for the outputs
> >> of derivation
> >> `/gnu/store/j3m0a6rwrz9jmass4zlndpn5y0x8g5n4-texlive-20170524-texmf.tar.xz.drv'
> >> failed (usually happens due to networking issues); try `--fallback'
> >> to build derivation from source
> >> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
> 
> > this is expected as we don't build substitutes for some parts of texlive, 
> > notable
> > this one. The resulting size would be ~5GB and as far as I understand it 
> > this would
> > need longer to transfer to you than to build locally (given that your 
> > machine can
> > build it).
> 
> Hum,
> 
> That makes sense, however the command bailing out is kind of confusing.
> Would it be possible to configure those heavy packages so that they
> automatically fallback to native compilation.
> 
> Anyway I don't understand how the full texlive end up being built when
> running ‘guix system build /etc/config.scm’ since the configuration
> contains only the following services and packages:
> 
>   (packages (cons* nss-certs         ;for HTTPS access
>                    gvfs              ;for user mounts
>                  samba
>                  cifs-utils
>                  nfs-utils
>                    %base-packages))
> 
>   (services (cons* (console-keymap-service "fr")
>                  (xfce-desktop-service)
>                  (mate-desktop-service)
>                  (service cups-service-type
>                           (cups-configuration
>                            (web-interface? #t)
>                            (extensions (list cups-filters hplip))))
>                  (extra-special-file "/usr/bin/env"
>                                      (file-append coreutils "/bin/env"))
>                  %desktop-services))
> 
> The only reference of texlive I have is ”texlive-tiny“ which is only in
> my user profile and is already built.

I suspect that it's somewhere in one of the dependency graphs of those 
applications,
you can check with guix size `guix build foo` to get a view on that.
It's definitely not gvfs, and mate triggered a build of webkitgtk-2 here, so
you have to figure out yourself I guess ( can take some time ).

> Thank you for the explanation.
> 
> -- 
> Mathieu Lirzin
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