bug#44559:

[Carl Dong]

Hi all,

As bitcoin core begins the planning to officially transition to Guix-based 
releases, I've had many community members build guix v1.2.0 from source and 
afterward attempt `--bootstrap --no-substitutes` builds. As you may imagine, 
they are getting stuck on this gnutls problem and cannot proceed further.

I'm wondering:

1. Is there a workaround that does not involve changing the system time? We 
have attempted several flags:
        1. --with-graft=gnutls=gnutls@3.6.14
        2. --without-tests=gnutls
        3. --with-input=gnutls=gnutls@3.6.14
        These attempts all failed to work around this bug, and I’m curious as 
to why that would be. My guess would be that when we do `--bootstrap`, Guix 
bootstraps itself first without taking into account these flags?

2. Since bootstrappability is one of the core tenets of Guix, might it be 
appropriate to cut a v1.2.1 release with this problem (and any other potential 
bootstrap problems) fixed? (Happy to discuss in separate thread if more 
appropriate)

Cheers,
Carl Dong
contact@carldong.me
"I fight for the users"