Re: Substitute caching restored

[Ludovic Courtès]

Leo Famulari <address@hidden> skribis:

> On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 10:47:29PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> Hello Guix!
>> 
>> Tired of updating the list of substitutes?  I have some good news for
>> you!
>> 
>> Since the switch to Guile 2.2.2, because of a bug (an otherwise known
>> bug) in SRFI-19, ‘guix substitute’ would be storing the wrong date in
>> cached narinfos in /var/guix/substitute/cache.  Consequently, we’d be
>> updating most narinfos as soon as we had cached them!
>> 
>> Commit b547349d505c57fd679b6e48c472d8ab65469c96 fixes that and
>> c96ed00910d9238a43469e5f00a8261253294257 updates the ‘guix’ package.
>
> Ah, thank you for finding and fixing this!

I owe it in part to jsierles on IRC who reported weird caching
behavior—which I had actually been experiencing for some time but was
blaming on anything except Guix.  ;-)

Ludo’.