Re: Heads-up: daemon update

2014-01-21 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi! (It took me a while to respond, notably because I was chasing a web-related bug I had just introduced in Guile. Dog food!) Andreas Enge skribis: > Now I get messages like >guix build: error: build failed: got unexpected path > `/nix/store/y7hz3la98sk4lmxmsvzbvjxifz4yrnwz-tzdata-2013d'

Re: Accessing derivation build chroot

2014-01-21 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Sree Harsha Totakura skribis: > I want to debug why a testcase from inetutils package fails. For > this, I am running 'make check' in the derivation build directory > '/tmp/nix-build-inetutils..drv-1' after sourcing a new bash with the > 'environmental-variables' file present in the same directo

Re: fetching substitutes slow

2014-01-21 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Sree Harsha Totakura skribis: > So, I removed the timeout with the attached patch and the substitute > downloads are working again. This time I observed that the speed at > which the substitute-binary.scm downloads the nar file is far low than > when the same file is downloaded through wget. I

Re: Heads-up: daemon update

2014-01-21 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Mark H Weaver skribis: > l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > >> Commit d43eb49 updates the Nix sub-module that provides the daemon’s >> C++ code. >> >> To update, run: >> >> ( cd nix ; ./sync-with-upstream ) >> autoreconf -vfi >> ./configure ... && make && make check > > A few of us ra

Accessing derivation build chroot

2014-01-21 Thread Sree Harsha Totakura
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I want to debug why a testcase from inetutils package fails. For this, I am running 'make check' in the derivation build directory '/tmp/nix-build-inetutils..drv-1' after sourcing a new bash with the 'environmental-variables' file present in the

fetching substitutes slow

2014-01-21 Thread Sree Harsha Totakura
Hi, Over the last week I tried to fetch substitutes with no success from hydra.gnu.org. It always showed the error "server is unresponsive". However, the nar packages get downloaded with wget. So, I removed the timeout with the attached patch and the substitute downloads are working again. This