bug#47867: [1.2.1 pre-release testing] substitute downloading and TLS errors

[pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)]

On Sun, Apr 18, 2021 at 02:10:06PM +0200, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote:
> On IRC Ricardo/rekado suspected
> c7c7f068c15e419aaf5ef616516aa5ad4e55c2fa, I will try reverting it.

It was necessary to revert follow-up commits before reverting
c7c7f068c15e419aaf5ef616516aa5ad4e55c2fa.

I tried on Guix master commit fef2f08bc640f78cc0a86fc7be3eccbc07b5e98c
the following commands:

sed -i '/vi/d' po/packages/LINGUAS #otherwise errors; Julien fixed this by now 
I think
git add po/packages/LINGUAS
git commit -m fixLINGUAS
git revert 2d73086262e1fb33cd0f0f16f74a495fe06b38aa
git revert 673e5276f6b4dda4bfa9dd5bb70220fc8b17abd2
git revert 45fce38fb0b6c6796906149ade145b8d3594c1c6
git revert 9da5ec7099b992a8969a17627548cd341c01bd90
git revert c5ab78f90b111839508d0ab10c0e5ac2038002ca
git revert b48204259aa9cad80c5b23a4060e2d796007ec7a
git revert c37e3b92ad0334ba2fe7ee4e98631f0a4edeee21
git revert 728c90862eb967a1679efdb69e26d7ba37cdc3a3
git revert fd5b77503e852b78a43e1bee4d6bdfbbb1f27e8f
git revert 112692c0d546d35cd67c5dc70dbd1dc609b18f64
git revert ee3226e9d54891c7e696912245e4904435be191c
git revert e2572aa95007558b008f04decff095f46d20e087
git revert 20c08a8a45d0f137ead7c05e720456b2aea44402
git revert 187e97096825d2bcceb144cead6eccc27385acd7
git revert 8116cc66733134a8fb6f9117d4648288b83c8356
git revert b9d058e3f7982eed04cc748cc0b24173a3969c52
git revert 7c85877fdf964694061e3192eac35723ebc047bf
git revert f50f5751fff4cfc6d5abba9681054569694b7a5c
git revert 05f38ca8dccc49d9ec70d1f63461976b97d74d52
git revert 7b812f7c84c43455cdd68a0e51b6ded018afcc8e
git revert f50b501a7472f4f237023831aa415a948115d1d1
git revert 205833b72c5517915a47a50dbe28e7024dc74e57
git revert e2e853ddb0d964e7b0300334ab51ab89950c2376
git revert 87734503a4a1761a4432b601352e5b02340a97f0
git revert 08acee2f98321d57c4faa3ba641a5543b74f10a4
git revert fbd61b5d3de353bfa468641d087bc53aaa1e63a5
git revert be5a75ebb5988b87b2392e2113f6590f353dd6cd
git revert c7c7f068c15e419aaf5ef616516aa5ad4e55c2fa
./bootstrap
./configure --localstatedir=/var
make
GUIX_ALLOW_ME_TO_USE_PRIVATE_COMMIT=y make update-guix-package
# disabling #:tests? on the guix package was *not* necessary once all reverts 
were in place
make
./pre-inst-env guix system image -t iso9660 gnu/system/install.scm

I dd’d the resulting image to a USB drive and the TLS errors no longer
appear (tried installing everything two times now; without reverts
downloading enlightenment needed retrys everytime).

I suppose if we leave this bug in the new Guix release, then some
substitutes like enlightenment get stuck and fail to download for some
people and therefore the installation fails.  I suspect restarting the
install causes grub-install to fail because it cannot find /boot/efi
anymore, but maybe my grub-install error had other reasons.

I will bisect which reverts are needed, but it takes time …

Regards,
Florian