bug#20497: GuixSD installation - Build of system.drv failed

[Ludovic Courtès]

Jeffrey Serio <address@hidden> skribis:

> Thank you for your reply.  The GuixSD version is 0.8.1.  I figured part of 
> the problem was with libarchive not 
> being the pre-built binary.  I even tried reassuring that hydra was 
> authorized, which apparently had no effect 
> on the outcome.  Also, while using Guix as a package manager on my host 
> system (Fedora 21), I attempted to 
> install the package 'dfc' from source (not binary) and I encountered the 
> libarchive-3.1.2.drv error there as well, so I checked the build log located 
> at 
> /tmp/nix-build*-libarchive-3.1.2.drv/.../test_option_b.log, and it mentioned 
> that "File archive1.tar has size 
> 3072, expected 2048" and that "bsdtar does not pad archives written directly 
> to regular files".  I hope this 
> information helps narrow down the issue.  Do you have any suggestions as to 
> how this could be resolved?

One problem is that hydra.gnu.org didn’t keep the pre-built binaries.
We ought to fix it, but our current server is quite limited in resources
(hopefully we will change it soon.)

As for the exact build issue, I don’t know.  You may be able to work
around it by running ‘guix pull’ right before running ‘guix system init’
in the installation image (likewise on your Fedora system: just run
‘guix pull’ before trying to install software.)

Besides, note that 0.8.2 will hopefully be released within two weeks.

Ludo’.