GNU bug report logs - #65714
guix-copy 32-bit integer limit

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Message #8 received at 65714 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: 65714 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: Efraim Flashner <efraim <at> flashner.co.il>
Subject: Re: bug#65714: guix-copy 32-bit integer limit
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2023 23:55:19 +0200

Hi Efraim,

Efraim Flashner <efraim <at> flashner.co.il> skribis:

> `guix copy` seems unable to deal with store items larger than
> 2**32 bytes (about 4.3 GiB).
>
> (ins)efraim <at> 3900XT ~$ guix copy --from=192.168.1.196 /gnu/store/0f8pgl9cyh8bknl50nw6yj9wykzm6ymc-texlivetexmf-20230313
> retrieving 1 store item from '192.168.1.196'...
> guix copy: error: implementation cannot deal with > 32-bit integers
>
> (ins)efraim <at> 3900XT ~$ ssh 192.168.1.196 du -sch /gnu/store/0f8pgl9cyh8bknl50nw6yj9wykzm6ymc-texlivetexmf-20230313
> 7.5G    /gnu/store/0f8pgl9cyh8bknl50nw6yj9wykzm6ymc-texlivetexmf-20230313
> 7.5G    total

Hmm that vaguely rings a bell, but we’ve had things like texlive-texmf
from the start and I think we’ve definitely been able to fetch them via
the offload/copy code.

Are you able to copy other store items from that host?  Could there be
another issue leading to a bogus diagnostic?

Thanks,
Ludo’.

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