Subject: Re: bug#33419: guix package is not showing that the checksum is mismatching

From: [email-masked] (Ludovic Courtès)
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2018 23:16:12 +0100

Björn Höfling <[email-masked]> skribis:

> On Mon, 19 Nov 2018 21:30:46 +0100
> [email-masked] (Ludovic Courtès) wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> 
>> Björn Höfling <[email-masked]> skribis:
>
>> > Is it intended that this build-failure detail is not shown? I
>> > suppose not. At least in a log it should be shown.  
>> 
>> I suspect you’re running an “old” guix-daemon, aren’t you?
>> 
>> Could you try again with an up-to-date daemon (and client)?  The code
>> that prints hash mismatch errors when talking to recent daemons is in
>> (guix status).
>
> Indeed! Short story: After really updating the daemon/root's Guix, it
> works now.

Cool!

> Long story:

Pffew, quite a journey.  Hopefully upgrading the daemon on foreign
distro will be easier and more natural with
<https://issues.guix.info/issue/33111>.

Thanks,
Ludo’.