l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) skribis: > Fixed-output derivations for HTTPS downloads depend on GnuTLS. However, > pkg-config, one of GnuTLS’s dependencies, is now available exclusively > over HTTPS, which creates a bootstrapping issue, as reported by > Christopher W Carpenter and others: > > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2016-02/msg00354.html
This is mitigated by the use of content-addressed mirrors over HTTP, as in commit 40f788b9f6184436d9cc36a4dd8e7d101cd2f0ba (obviously a stop-gap measure more than a real fix.) Ludo’.