[debbugs-tracker] bug#28664: closed ('guix publish' fails to guarantee TTL for already-compressed store items)

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Your message dated Wed, 18 Oct 2017 23:35:01 +0200
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and subject line Re: bug#28664: gst-plugins-base-1.12.3.tar.xz nar on berlin 
returns 404
has caused the debbugs.gnu.org bug report #28664,
regarding 'guix publish' fails to guarantee TTL for already-compressed store 
items
to be marked as done.

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> gst-plugins-base-1.12.3.tar.xz nar on berlin returns 404
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> Sun, 01 Oct 2017 15:57:06 -0400
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> Hello,
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> While attempting to update today I got that:
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> Downloading 
> https://berlin.guixsd.org/nar/gzip/3vfvi0qcb5fwwm2pdy3vx06v4jhmwr3d-gtk%2B-2.24.31...
>  gtk%2B-2.24.31  10.0MiB                                                        
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>                                   1.3MiB/s 00:07 [####################] 100.0%
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> Downloading 
> https://berlin.guixsd.org/nar/g2ph0s1bjnzzn3q3h2pb8zw87bdxf697-gst-plugins-base-1.12.3.tar.xz...
> guix substitute: error: download from 
> 'https://berlin.guixsd.org/nar/g2ph0s1bjnzzn3q3h2pb8zw87bdxf697-gst-plugins-base-1.12.3.tar.xz'
>  failed: 404, "Not Found"
> guix package: error: build failed: some substitutes for the outputs of 
> derivation 
> `/gnu/store/vcjfcp3va23yqcvg9gbcqwk9fm19hh1c-gst-plugins-base-1.12.3.tar.xz.drv'
>  failed (usually happens due to networking issues); try `--fallback' to build 
> derivation from source
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> Re: bug#28664: gst-plugins-base-1.12.3.tar.xz nar on berlin returns 404
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> address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) skribis:
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> > address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) skribis:
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> >> So the problem is that for uncompressed store items (‘guix publish’
> >> serves *.tar.xz without any additional compression, so it uses the
> >> ‘none’ compression method from its viewpoint), ‘guix publish’ does not
> >> keep the nar in /var/cache/guix/publish, so it cannot guarantee its TTL.
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> >> The fix is probably simply to store nars even for uncompressed store
> >> items, even if that increases disk usage.
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> > Done in e5788ebbe1f45a1088249b9138de17b330609712.
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> > (We still need to deploy the fix on berlin.guixsd.org & co.)
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> It’s now deployed on berlin.guixsd.org.
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> Ludo’.
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