Leo Famulari <l...@famulari.name> writes: > On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 05:06:48PM +0100, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: >> Since I lack an understanding of why the “guile” argument could ever >> purposefully be set to “#f” I cannot come up with a nice fix. Instead >> of a nice fix I have found a really gross fix: >> >> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- >> diff --git a/guix/download.scm b/guix/download.scm >> index 813f51f48..86f859881 100644 >> --- a/guix/download.scm >> +++ b/guix/download.scm >> @@ -418,7 +418,10 @@ GnuTLS itself and its dependencies. See >> <http://bugs.gnu.org/22774>." >> ;; hash of the expected result. >> #:verify-certificate? #f))))) >> >> - (mlet %store-monad ((guile (package->derivation guile system))) >> + (mlet %store-monad ((guile (package->derivation >> + (or guile >> + (@@ (gnu packages bootstrap) >> %bootstrap-guile)) >> + system))) >> (gexp->derivation file-name builder >> #:guile-for-build guile >> #:system system >> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- > > Based on discussion on #guix with Ricardo and Andy, I pushed this diff > as 9f05908fb1e3707cae593d94688748294717a546 on Ricardo's behalf.
Thank you! > I'm leaving the bug open until we find a better fix. That’s fair. For people who encounter this bug at a later point: please upgrade the daemon; that’s better than trying to use the latest Guix with an outdated daemon. -- Ricardo GPG: BCA6 89B6 3655 3801 C3C6 2150 197A 5888 235F ACAC https://elephly.net
