Andreas Enge <andr...@enge.fr> skribis: > Am Mittwoch, 17. Juli 2013 schrieb Ludovic Courtès: >> Hmm, works for me: >> $ ./pre-inst-env guix build tzdata -S > > Yes, downloading the source from hydra works. The result is the file > /nix/store/gryg2h8lp3s8cc4zgxw14yn7d0wgc9lq-tzdata2013d.tar.gz > but it is only a tar, non gzipped. (I was making assumptions about how > things are stored on hydra, which were apparently wrong. In any case, I end > up with a file in the store that is not compressed.)
Yeah, got it now. That means there’s an intern (or not!) at IANA who had forgotten to gzip the tarball, and just did that silently. Ludo’.