Subject: Bootstrapping issue with HTTPS downloads
From: [email-masked] (Ludovic Courtès)
To: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2016 22:03:54 +0100
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

Fixed-output derivations for HTTPS downloads depend on GnuTLS.  However,
pkg-config, one of GnuTLS’s dependencies, is now available exclusively
over HTTPS, which creates a bootstrapping issue, as reported by
Christopher W Carpenter and others:

  https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2016-02/msg00354.html

Ludo’.