Re: Problems with downloading from https

[Alex Kost]

Ludovic Courtès (2014-10-26 16:46 +0300) wrote:

> Alex Kost <address@hidden> skribis:
>
>> Yes, I installed gnutls, but it didn't work because I didn't set the
>> right guile paths: “guix package --search-paths” recommends
>> "/usr/local/var/guix/profiles/per-user/<user>/guix-profile/share/guile/site/2.0"
>> but "gnutls.scm" is actually placed in
>> "/usr/local/var/guix/profiles/per-user/<user>/guix-profile/share/guile/site"
>> so ‘(use-modules (gnutls))’ failed for me.
>
> Oh, that’s a bug of the GnuTLS package: we should pass the right
> configure flag so that modules go to site/2.0.  Could you do that?

Yes, but I'm a little concerned.  Should it really be so?  What about
guile-1.8; isn't it supposed to use gnutls module as well?

> This should probably go to core-updates, since it’s going to be merged
> soon anyway.

As far as I can see there is no core-updates branch currently:
<http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/refs/>.

The patch is attached, so (if it looks good to you) should I push it to
master or create "core-updates" branch?

0001-gnu-gnutls-Fix-path-to-a-guile-site-directory.patch
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