Hello, in the core-updates branch, tarballs are not downloaded automatically any more. Here is the result of "guix-build hello" (which tries to rebuild everything, as expected):
... starting download of `/nix/store/c09pc1yvdai4ylb5i7x242aj66dy3f07- glibc-2.17.tar.xz' from `http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/glibc/glibc-2.17.tar.xz'... ERROR: In procedure getaddrinfo: Name or service not known starting download of `/nix/store/c09pc1yvdai4ylb5i7x242aj66dy3f07- glibc-2.17.tar.xz' from `ftp://ftp.cs.tu- berlin.de/pub/gnu/glibc/glibc-2.17.tar.xz'... failed to resolve `ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de': Name or service not known ERROR: In procedure struct_vtable: Wrong type argument in position 1 (expecting pair): #f starting download of `/nix/store/c09pc1yvdai4ylb5i7x242aj66dy3f07- glibc-2.17.tar.xz' from `ftp://ftp.chg.ru/pub/gnu/glibc/glibc-2.17.tar.xz'... failed to resolve `ftp.chg.ru': Name or service not known ERROR: In procedure struct_vtable: Wrong type argument in position 1 (expecting pair): #f starting download of `/nix/store/c09pc1yvdai4ylb5i7x242aj66dy3f07- glibc-2.17.tar.xz' from `ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/ftp.gnu.org/gnu/glibc/glibc-2.17.tar.xz'... failed to resolve `ftp.funet.fi': Name or service not known ERROR: In procedure struct_vtable: Wrong type argument in position 1 (expecting pair): #f starting download of `/nix/store/c09pc1yvdai4ylb5i7x242aj66dy3f07- glibc-2.17.tar.xz' from `http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/glibc/glibc-2.17.tar.xz'... ERROR: In procedure getaddrinfo: Name or service not known failed to download "/nix/store/c09pc1yvdai4ylb5i7x242aj66dy3f07- glibc-2.17.tar.xz" from "mirror://gnu/glibc/glibc-2.17.tar.xz" ... On the other hand, guix-download http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/glibc/glibc-2.17.tar.xz succeeds. Andreas
