bug#39575: guix time-machine fails when a tarball was modified in-place

[zimoun]

Hi Giovanni,

On Fri, 14 Feb 2020 at 11:07, Giovanni Biscuolo <address@hidden> wrote:
> Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> writes:

> > The problem here is really that we fall back to content-addressed
> > mirrors instead of using them directly:
> >
> >   https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/28659
>
> Given the natute (AFAIU) of this issue is the very same of the bug you
> mention, shouldn't this bug be merged (forcemerged?) whith #28659?

AFAIU, there is 2 issues:
 1. how to do with the particular case of harfbuzz -- bug#39575
 2. how to solve the general case of unreliable sources -- bug#28659

So instead of merging the bugs (case 2.), I would like to solve 1.,
mark it as done and report to bug#28659. It will ease to follow
because the thread in bug#28659 is already heavy. :-)



All the best,
simon