Re: [PATCH] zlib: bump to 1.2.8.

[Cyril Roelandt]

On 05/26/2013 10:00 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Cyril Roelandt<address@hidden>  skribis:
>
> > On 05/23/2013 05:19 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> >
> > > Did you use --no-substitutes?
> >
> > No, but anyway I can't use the substituter on x86.
>
> You can: the tar.gz is architecture-independent, and it’s the exact same
> regardless of the architecture (technically, it’s a “fixed-output
> derivation”.)
>
> So ‘guix build -S foo’ should by default try to go through the
> substituter.  If that is not the case, it may be a bug.
>
> Could you check what happens?

IIRC, I noticed the issue in zlib because Guix failed to download it 
when I tried to install gnutls. I could not reproduce the issue though :/

Cyril.