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Building Guix fails without '/etc/services' |
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Mon, 31 Jul 2017 20:23:58 -0400 |
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On a system that lacks '/etc/services' (CoreOS), building Guix from
source fails because getaddrinfo() doesn't know how to proceed:
ERROR: In procedure getaddrinfo: Servname not supported for ai_socktype
I worked around this issue by downloading the binaries by hand with
curl.
I don't know how curl does it, but could it be possible to make the Guix
build more resilient here?
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Re: bug#27894: Building Guix fails without '/etc/services' |
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Tue, 1 Aug 2017 15:39:19 -0400 |
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On Tue, Aug 01, 2017 at 12:09:12PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Leo Famulari <address@hidden> skribis:
>
> > On a system that lacks '/etc/services' (CoreOS), building Guix from
> > source fails because getaddrinfo() doesn't know how to proceed:
> >
> > ERROR: In procedure getaddrinfo: Servname not supported for ai_socktype
> >
> > I worked around this issue by downloading the binaries by hand with
> > curl.
>
> You get the error above when running “make”, which in turn runs
> build-aux/download.scm, right?
>
> If so, I think this can be worked around with:
>
> diff --git a/build-aux/download.scm b/build-aux/download.scm
> index 8dfa91460..5cb2491dc 100644
> --- a/build-aux/download.scm
> +++ b/build-aux/download.scm
> @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
> (guix hash))
>
> (define %url-base
> - "http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/bootstrap"
> + "http://alpha.gnu.org:80/gnu/guix/bootstrap"
>
> ;; Alternately:
> ;;"http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/software/guix/packages"
>
> However, the whole point of /etc/services is so that application writers
> don’t have to hard-code port number everywhere. So I’d be tempted to
> say this is not a bug.
>
> WDYT?
I think it's fair to say it's not a bug. Perhaps if we get more reports
from users of this system we can reconsider.
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