On Tue, Aug 01, 2017 at 12:09:12PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Leo Famulari <[email protected]> skribis: > > > On a system that lacks '/etc/services' (CoreOS), building Guix from > > source fails because getaddrinfo() doesn't know how to proceed: > > > > ERROR: In procedure getaddrinfo: Servname not supported for ai_socktype > > > > I worked around this issue by downloading the binaries by hand with > > curl. > > You get the error above when running “make”, which in turn runs > build-aux/download.scm, right? > > If so, I think this can be worked around with: >
> diff --git a/build-aux/download.scm b/build-aux/download.scm > index 8dfa91460..5cb2491dc 100644 > --- a/build-aux/download.scm > +++ b/build-aux/download.scm > @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ > (guix hash)) > > (define %url-base > - "http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/bootstrap"; > + "http://alpha.gnu.org:80/gnu/guix/bootstrap"; > > ;; Alternately: > ;;"http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/software/guix/packages"; > > However, the whole point of /etc/services is so that application writers > don’t have to hard-code port number everywhere. So I’d be tempted to > say this is not a bug. > > WDYT? I think it's fair to say it's not a bug. Perhaps if we get more reports from users of this system we can reconsider.
