Hi, Using guix 1.4.0 as a starting point on a foreign distro, I'm unable to complete a pull without substitutes.
Steps to reproduce: $ install guix using the installer script (or apt install guix) $ export GUIX_BUILD_OPTIONS="--no-substitutes" $ guix pull It then proceeds to build a number of packages, including guile 3.0.7. Tests for this package fail as described here: https://issues.guix.gnu.org/48392 I have tried building it at least a dozen times and the tests fail each time. Context: A project I am involved with uses guix time-machine + guix shell to set up a build environment that is used to build portable binaries for a desktop application. For security and auditability reasons, the build process is bootstrappable and verifiably reproducible. Multiple builders build the software using guix. The results are signed, submitted to a central repository, and compared. To ensure the build is in fact bootstrappable, and to detect potential non-determinism in guix packages, I want to encourage builders to build the manifest without substitutes. I'd like to provide mostly distribution-agnostic documentation. Instructing builders to build a more recent version of guix from source would make this process less accessible. Questions: 1. Why does it attempt to build guile 3.0.7? The version of guile defined in the latest version of guix (or the time-machine pinned commit) is 3.0.9. 2. Is there a way to avoid having to build guile 3.0.7? (While still using the guix provided by the installer script as a starting point.) 3. If not, is it possible to skip the test phase for this specific package? 4. If not, is there anything I can do to make the tests less likely to fail?
