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‘guix authenticate’ failure in C locale

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
Cc: tracker <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#17312: closed (‘guix authenticate’
 failure in C locale)
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 11:36:01 +0000

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From: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: bug-guix <at> gnu.org
Subject: ‘guix authenticate’ failure in C locale
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 10:51:34 +0200

As seen in <http://hydra.gnu.org/build/54212>, ‘guix authenticate’ could
fail when running in the C locale (as is the case on hydra.gnu.org):

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
@ build-started /gnu/store/639n30wn56fsnvxnp5sv4nxshxdsym32-gmp-6.0.0a.drv - x86_64-linux /nix/var/log/guix/drvs/63//9n30wn56fsnvxnp5sv4nxshxdsym32-gmp-6.0.0a.drv
sending 2 store files to 'hydra.gnunet.org'...
importing path `/gnu/store/hyr8lvpbl2lbbkvr5v1qa25895bpcxls-gmp-6.0.0a-guile-builder'
guix archive: error: build failed: program `guix-authenticate' failed with exit code 1
builder for `/gnu/store/639n30wn56fsnvxnp5sv4nxshxdsym32-gmp-6.0.0a.drv' failed to produce output path `/gnu/store/6va1dygagfrlc1xqy71ckawh4cymrl4h-gmp-6.0.0a-debug'
@ hook-failed /gnu/store/639n30wn56fsnvxnp5sv4nxshxdsym32-gmp-6.0.0a.drv - 0 builder for `/gnu/store/639n30wn56fsnvxnp5sv4nxshxdsym32-gmp-6.0.0a.drv' failed to produce output path `/gnu/store/6va1dygagfrlc1xqy71ckawh4cymrl4h-gmp-6.0.0a-debug'
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

The problem was that it could in some cases produce a signature sexp
with an invalid hash value.  For example:

  guix  archive --export /gnu/store/hyr8lvpbl2lbbkvr5v1qa25895bpcxls-gmp-6.0.0a-guile-builder

would produce an archive with a signature sexp like this (literally):

  (signature 
   (data 
    (flags pkcs1)
    (hash sha256 "^?\vU????{N4?`??eL??x???|1y????{L")
    )

  [...]

The problem is that the hash value shown here is the result of
substituting non-ASCII characters with question marks and other things.
Obviously signature verification on such a thing would fail, leading to
errors like the one above.

This could happen in some cases, when libgcrypt would choose to use a
byte string representation instead of a hexadecimal string, and is due
to the fact that ‘string->canonical-sexp’ would convert strings passed
to ‘gcry_sexp_new’ to locale encoding.

This is fixed with commit 6030d84 (see that commit for a concrete
example.)

Ludo’.

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From: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: 17312-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#17312: ‘guix authenticate’
 failure in C locale
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 13:35:07 +0200

ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) skribis:

> This is fixed with commit 6030d84 (see that commit for a concrete
> example.)

A related issue is the choice of the stdout encoding used by ‘guix
authenticate’, fixed in 6f69588.

This appears to solve this bug.

Ludo’.

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