Subject: bug#69710: [67960be] failed to compute the derivation for Guix x86_64-linux

From: Richard Sent <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2024 11:23:53 -0400

> From what I understand, not enabling
> substitutes should lead to building from source.

Did you try pulling with --fallback? I believe if substitute fetching
fails Guix won't build from source unless you add that flag.

Perhaps the error message in Guix pull could be updated to not say

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
guix pull: error: You found a bug: the program ...
failed to compute the derivation for Guix ....
Please report the COMPLETE output above by email to <[email-masked]>.
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

When the store protocol error is

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
ERROR:
  1. &store-protocol-error:
      message: "some substitutes for the outputs of derivation ... failed (usually happens due to networking issues); try `--fallback' to build derivation from source "
      status: 1
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

and --fallback isn't provided.

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Take it easy,
Richard Sent
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