Subject: bug#46967: Connection reuse for substitutes breaks with gzip

From: Bonface Munyoki K. <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2021 21:34:05 +0300

Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]> writes:

> Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]> skribis:
>
>> Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]> skribis:
>>
>>> I decided to take a heavy-handed solution to that problem, which is to
>>> augment Guile-zlib with an interface for gzip compression/decompression
>>> not restricted to file ports (‘call-with-gzip-output-port’ & co. are
>>> restricted to file ports):
>>>
>>>   https://notabug.org/guile-zlib/guile-zlib/commit/b899ac2fecf91475da1eba7e7b24708ea8b5fb73
>>>
>>> That way, we can change ‘decompressed-port’ in (guix utils) to perform
>>> in-process decompression for ‘gzip’, like it does for zstd and lzip.
>>
>> Done in a04aef2430645357d7796969d4b6453478ff8a3f!
>>
>> I’ll update the ‘guix’ package so people on Guix System can get the fix,
>> and then we can close this bug.
>
> Done in 8154beffd8c121e953a7c4cd75c3eebfcc073a9a, closing!
>

Very far fetched but could this be the cause of:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2021-03/msg00052.html?

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