Re: cannot build system from source during the installation

[Leo Famulari]

Unless the situation has changed since I last checked, tarballs of linux-libre 
are not preserved long-term by their creators.

Our normal kernel packages were designed to account for this, but this is a 
"kernel headers" package, right? Someone should see if we can address this 
shortcoming.

For building Guix or a bare-bones Guix System version 1.3.0, there are probably 
some more similar cases where sources are no longer available upstream.

It's something that Software Heritage aims to address.

There are other kinds of "must be substituted" problems. I remember upstream 
test suites with expiring TLS certificates; you'd have to change the system 
time. A tricky problem overall: we can never prevent all bogus 
non-deterministic build problems.

On Fri, Apr 1, 2022, at 05:55, Adam Kandur wrote:
> hi guix!
> I decided to try to build a guix system from source instead of using
> substitutes but ran into a problem:
>
> "guix pull --no-substitutes" returns me this
>
> Updating channel 'guix' from Git repository at
> 'https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git'...
> Building from this channel:
>   guix      https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git   fc94e93
> building 
> /gnu/store/0h7r1766n7brqlvzpnb0y3vank5faizz-linux-libre-5.4.20-gnu.tar.xz.drv...
> \builder for 
> `/gnu/store/0h7r1766n7brqlvzpnb0y3vank5faizz-linux-libre-5.4.20-gnu.tar.xz.drv'
> failed to produce output path
> `/gnu/store/0zcl1i3rbjc356138hx86b7yaz29g6fj-linux-libre-5.4.20-gnu.tar.xz'
> build of 
> /gnu/store/0h7r1766n7brqlvzpnb0y3vank5faizz-linux-libre-5.4.20-gnu.tar.xz.drv
> failed
> View build log at
> '/var/log/guix/drvs/0h/7r1766n7brqlvzpnb0y3vank5faizz-linux-libre-5.4.20-gnu.tar.xz.drv.bz2'.
> cannot build derivation
> `/gnu/store/3gjjkdq3ll76lffa2563xx62h4w9cxks-linux-libre-headers-5.4.20.drv':
> 1 dependencies couldn't be built
> building 
> /gnu/store/7sy6lhff8l2ss3qgyg21b5cav0rdgycv-linux-libre-headers-stripped-4.14.67-i686-linux.tar.xz.drv...
> cannot build derivation
> `/gnu/store/b7rgn9czp9qfdfrpyrz8ndj5dqfzrjw9-libtiff-4.2.0.drv': 1
> dependencies couldn't be built
> guix pull: error: build of
> `/gnu/store/b7rgn9czp9qfdfrpyrz8ndj5dqfzrjw9-libtiff-4.2.0.drv' failed
>
>
>
> So I looked in the log and found that:
>
> Starting download of
> /gnu/store/0zcl1i3rbjc356138hx86b7yaz29g6fj-linux-libre-5.4.20-gnu.tar.xz
> From 
> https://linux-libre.fsfla.org/pub/linux-libre/releases/5.4.20-gnu/linux-libre-5.4.20-gnu.tar.xz...
> download failed
> "https://linux-libre.fsfla.org/pub/linux-libre/releases/5.4.20-gnu/linux-libre-5.4.20-gnu.tar.xz";
> 404 "Not Found"
>
> Starting download of
> /gnu/store/0zcl1i3rbjc356138hx86b7yaz29g6fj-linux-libre-5.4.20-gnu.tar.xz
> From ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/mirror/linux-libre-5.4.20-gnu.tar.xz...
> Throw to key `ftp-error' with args `(#<input-output: socket 14> "RETR
> linux-libre-5.4.20-gnu.tar.xz" 550 "Failed to open file.\r")'.
>
> Starting download of
> /gnu/store/0zcl1i3rbjc356138hx86b7yaz29g6fj-linux-libre-5.4.20-gnu.tar.xz
> From 
> https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gnu/linux-libre/5.4.20-gnu/linux-libre-5.4.20-gnu.tar.xz...
> following redirection to
> `https://mirror.tochlab.net/pub/gnu/linux-libre/5.4.20-gnu/linux-libre-5.4.20-gnu.tar.xz'...
> download failed
> "https://mirror.tochlab.net/pub/gnu/linux-libre/5.4.20-gnu/linux-libre-5.4.20-gnu.tar.xz";
> 404 "Not Found"
>
> Starting download of
> /gnu/store/0zcl1i3rbjc356138hx86b7yaz29g6fj-linux-libre-5.4.20-gnu.tar.xz
> From 
> ftp://ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de/pub/gnu/linux-libre/5.4.20-gnu/linux-libre-5.4.20-gnu.tar.xz...
> In procedure getaddrinfo: Name or service not known
>
> Starting download of
> /gnu/store/0zcl1i3rbjc356138hx86b7yaz29g6fj-linux-libre-5.4.20-gnu.tar.xz
> From 
> ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/ftp.gnu.org/gnu/linux-libre/5.4.20-gnu/linux-libre-5.4.20-gnu.tar.xz...
> Throw to key `ftp-error' with args `(#<input-output: socket 17> "CWD
> 5.4.20-gnu" 550 "Can't change directory to 5.4.20-gnu: No such file or
> directory\r")'.
>
> Starting download of
> /gnu/store/0zcl1i3rbjc356138hx86b7yaz29g6fj-linux-libre-5.4.20-gnu.tar.xz
> From 
> http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/linux-libre/5.4.20-gnu/linux-libre-5.4.20-gnu.tar.xz...
> download failed
> "http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/linux-libre/5.4.20-gnu/linux-libre-5.4.20-gnu.tar.xz";
> 404 "Not Found"
>
> Starting download of
> /gnu/store/0zcl1i3rbjc356138hx86b7yaz29g6fj-linux-libre-5.4.20-gnu.tar.xz
> From 
> https://ci.guix.gnu.org/file/linux-libre-5.4.20-gnu.tar.xz/sha256/1qxhf6dmcwjblzx8fgn6vr10p38xw10iwh6d1y1v1mxb25y30b47...
> In procedure connect*: Connection timed out
>
> Starting download of
> /gnu/store/0zcl1i3rbjc356138hx86b7yaz29g6fj-linux-libre-5.4.20-gnu.tar.xz
> From 
> https://tarballs.nixos.org/sha256/1qxhf6dmcwjblzx8fgn6vr10p38xw10iwh6d1y1v1mxb25y30b47...
> download failed
> "https://tarballs.nixos.org/sha256/1qxhf6dmcwjblzx8fgn6vr10p38xw10iwh6d1y1v1mxb25y30b47";
> 404 "Not Found"
>
> Starting download of
> /gnu/store/0zcl1i3rbjc356138hx86b7yaz29g6fj-linux-libre-5.4.20-gnu.tar.xz
> From 
> https://archive.softwareheritage.org/api/1/content/sha256:872c307c11abd7b0830fcd401e41e01d8d0b42dec63e87faa74b72569b71b0e3/raw/...
> download failed
> "https://archive.softwareheritage.org/api/1/content/sha256:872c307c11abd7b0830fcd401e41e01d8d0b42dec63e87faa74b72569b71b0e3/raw/";
> 404 "Not Found"
> failed to download
> "/gnu/store/0zcl1i3rbjc356138hx86b7yaz29g6fj-linux-libre-5.4.20-gnu.tar.xz"
> from 
> ("https://linux-libre.fsfla.org/pub/linux-libre/releases/5.4.20-gnu/linux-libre-5.4.20-gnu.tar.xz";
> "ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/mirror/linux-libre-5.4.20-gnu.tar.xz";
> "mirror://gnu/linux-libre/5.4.20-gnu/linux-libre-5.4.20-gnu.tar.xz")
>
>
> I checked http links. Can confirm that the source of linux libre is
> not there. Maybe I did something wrong and you can help me to resolve
> this issue.