I'm currently staying at a place with a slow net connection, where it
takes several hours to download texlive-20140525-texmf.tar.xz (1.74 GB).
Several times in a row, the download has failed with:
building of
`/gnu/store/9cdy0640fxi0dr9fy29g6nr34qi79i81-texlive-20140525-texmf.tar.xz.drv'
timed out after 3600 seconds of silence
Finally I decided to use 'wget' to download it, so that I could resume
partial transfers. I have the entire file now, but all of my attempts
to add it to the store fail. "guix download file:///path/to/file"
reports:
guix download: error: sendfile: Broken pipe
I also attempted to add it using 'add-to-store', which exited the
process ungracefully without printing an error message:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
mhw:~/guix-core-updates$ ./pre-inst-env guile
GNU Guile 2.0.11
Copyright (C) 1995-2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Guile comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `,show w'.
This program is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; type `,show c' for details.
Enter `,help' for help.
scheme@(guile-user)> ,use (guix)
scheme@(guile-user)> (define %store (open-connection))
scheme@(guile-user)> (add-to-store %store "texlive-20140525-texmf.tar.xz" #f
"sha256" "/home/mhw/texlive-20140525-texmf.tar.xz")
mhw:~/guix-core-updates$ echo $?
141
mhw:~/guix-core-updates$
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
Any ideas? Does adding files to the store entail mapping them into
memory?
Mark
