On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 09:56:31PM +0200, Andreas Enge wrote: > since I am regularly rebuilding texlive (who is not!), I would like to keep > the source tarball on my machine, and whenever I garbage collect it from the > store, add it back via > guix download file:texlive-20150523-texmf.tar.xz > > On my Novena with a 32 bit processor and 4 GB of main memory, this fails with > guix download: error: sendfile: Broken pipe > > The file itself has 1,8 GB. > > Downloading the file via http as part of "guix build" works, and > "guix download file:" also works on my x86_64 machine with 8 GB of RAM.
As a temporary workaround, you could make the tarball a gcroot: # ln -sf /gnu/store/...-texlive-20150523-texmf.tar.xz \ /var/guix/gcroots/texlive-texmf.tar.xz
