bug#27430: linux-libre 4.4.47 is no longer available upstream

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi Leo,

Leo Famulari <address@hidden> skribis:

> Starting download of 
> /gnu/store/x8x9s119g1xhdxrzaka35lx4p45qd3vg-linux-libre-4.4.47-gnu.tar.xz
> From ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/mirror/linux-libre-4.4.47-gnu.tar.xz...
> ERROR: Throw to key `ftp-error' with args `(#<input-output: socket 12> "RETR 
> linux-libre-4.4.47-gnu.tar.xz" 550 "Failed to open file.\r")'.

[...]

> Starting download of 
> /gnu/store/x8x9s119g1xhdxrzaka35lx4p45qd3vg-linux-libre-4.4.47-gnu.tar.xz
> From 
> http://mirror.hydra.gnu.org/file/linux-libre-4.4.47-gnu.tar.xz/sha256/00zdq7swhvzbbnnhzizq6m34q5k4fycpcp215bmkbxh1ic76v7bs...
> ERROR: download failed 
> "http://mirror.hydra.gnu.org/file/linux-libre-4.4.47-gnu.tar.xz/sha256/00zdq7swhvzbbnnhzizq6m34q5k4fycpcp215bmkbxh1ic76v7bs";
>  504 "Gateway Time-out"

As discussed yesterday on IRC, the 504 here was due to ‘guix publish’
being stuck on hydra.gnu.org, which is now fixed.

Nevertheless, I’ve started an upload to alpha.gnu.org/guix/mirror as you
suggested (should be there within 15 minutes or so) for two reasons:

  1. It’s safer, and it’s a critical package.

  2. Content-addressed mirrors are checked as a last resort after all
     the GNU mirrors have been checked.  However, Jan reported that some
     mirrors return 200 with bogus data, which leads to a hash mismatch
     error (this is because it’s guix-daemon that checks hashes, after
     the ‘guix perform-download’ has done its jobs; ‘guix
     perform-download’ thus doesn’t check hashes.)

Thanks for the heads-up!

Ludo’.