Re: Guix pull failure for Python 2.7.11

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Hi Mohammad,

> Since the error is about connection, I should say that I was connected
> to the internet when I ran `guix pull'.

Inside of the build environment there is no network connection, so this
test would always fail.

> Because of this failure, I am unable to continue pulling the
> higher-level changes/packages. So, I wanted to see if there is anything
> particular I can do to fix this? Is this particular to my machine/system?

I’m confused about this because 2.7.11 is pretty old.  Latest in Guix
appears to be 2.7.13.  When you do “guix pull” it should fetch the
latest version of Guix first, so I don’t see why you would be building
2.7.11.

I also see this message:

> substitute: guix substitute: warning: ACL for archive imports seems to be 
> uninitialized, substitutes may be unavailable

If you want to use binaries from our build farm you need to authorize
the build farm’s public key.  (This is no longer needed for later
releases of Guix.)

I’d first try to fix that and re-run “guix pull”.  Since you are on an
old version of Guix, however, it is likely that we no longer provided
binaries for the packages you need.  In that case I would consider
installing the latest version via the binary release or from git.

--
Ricardo

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