Hi, Mathieu Othacehe <othac...@gnu.org> skribis:
>> Did you eventually find out where the negative size comes from? >> >> https://issues.guix.gnu.org/46212 >> >> What should we do in your opinion with database entries that have a >> negative size? > > I didn't look closely to this problem yet. However, I fixed an issue > with locales in the remote building mechanism that caused publish server > crashes: > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-guix/2021-02/msg00231.html. Hmm I don’t think so. The bug here is likely due to 32-bit signed integer wrapping. That can only happen in C code, so to me possible culprits would be guile-simple-zmq or the layer above it (if there’s a binary protocol involved) or the postgresql interface. Only a vague intuition, though. Ludo’.
