Hi,

On Sat, 31 Aug 2024 at 20:44, tobtoht <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Using guix 1.4.0 as a starting point on a foreign distro, I'm unable to
> complete a pull without substitutes.

Well, sadly people are also reporting failures with substitutes.

        bug#72353: guix pull bug
        Shyam Laximan <[email protected]>
        Mon, 29 Jul 2024 09:06:19 +0000
        
id:lv8p220mb1267afa90ff9dca6e27a2ee7b5...@lv8p220mb1267.namp220.prod.outlook.com
        https://issues.guix.gnu.org/72353
        
https://issues.guix.gnu.org/msgid/lv8p220mb1267afa90ff9dca6e27a2ee7b5...@lv8p220mb1267.namp220.prod.outlook.com
        
https://yhetil.org/guix/lv8p220mb1267afa90ff9dca6e27a2ee7b5...@lv8p220mb1267.namp220.prod.outlook.com

        bug#72110: bug in brand new installation during pull
        Rainer Glaschick <[email protected]>
        Sun, 14 Jul 2024 14:23:44 +0200
        id:[email protected]
        https://issues.guix.gnu.org/72110
        
https://issues.guix.gnu.org/msgid/[email protected]
        
https://yhetil.org/guix/[email protected]

        bug#72028: &nar-error during guix pull on Linux Mint
        Spencer via Bug reports for GNU Guix <[email protected]>
        Tue, 09 Jul 2024 20:47:01 -0700
        id:[email protected]
        https://issues.guix.gnu.org/72028
        
https://issues.guix.gnu.org/msgid/[email protected]
        
https://yhetil.org/guix/[email protected]

        bug#71691: Bug found while running 'guix pull'
        "Matthew Tuel" <[email protected]>
        Thu, 20 Jun 2024 20:41:40 -0500
        id:[email protected]
        https://issues.guix.gnu.org/71691
        
https://issues.guix.gnu.org/msgid/[email protected]
        
https://yhetil.org/guix/[email protected]

        bug#71437: error: You found a bug: the program 
'/gnu/store/vbxf3hm2c0wsj2l37ms44k2isiw98ijq-compute-guix-derivation'
        Anthony Bucci <[email protected]>
        Sat, 08 Jun 2024 11:16:34 -0400
        id:[email protected]
        https://issues.guix.gnu.org/71437
        
https://issues.guix.gnu.org/msgid/[email protected]
        https://yhetil.org/guix/[email protected]

etc.

Well, maybe without substitutes the issues are different.  I do not know…


> 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?

I have not investigated so sorry for not answering.

About #3 and #4, I do not know any mean to avoid running the test suite
of some dependencies for “guix pull”.

Cheers,
simon

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