Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Violations of GPL in GuixSD packaging design

[Ludovic Courtès]

Jean Louis <address@hidden> skribis:

> By following your instructions, I have done following test. I have done
> this:
>
> guix build --source wicd
>
> and I could see that following is being downloaded:
> https://mirror.hydra.gnu.org/nar/p0kpcqzs4ylyni5yj8dv18kgj0x12zjb-wicd-1.7.3.tar.xz
>
> After downloading of that file, I have checked the file with md5sum,
> result being: e426afe01fcf003147a35c4826b81c5e for the downloaded file:
> p0kpcqzs4ylyni5yj8dv18kgj0x12zjb-wicd-1.7.3.tar.xz
>
> This downloaded file, first I would assume it is the "complete
> corresponding code that accompany the object distributed". But I could
> not unpack the file, file format is not recognized. So far I could not
> get the complete corresponding source code from distribution server.
>
> The output of the command gave me the link on my system:
> /gnu/store/p0kpcqzs4ylyni5yj8dv18kgj0x12zjb-wicd-1.7.3.tar.xz
>
> This seems to be modified file because the MD5SUM shows:
> 50f918b7a31eabe97f0ffa3c1bf08452
> /gnu/store/p0kpcqzs4ylyni5yj8dv18kgj0x12zjb-wicd-1.7.3.tar.xz

Why don’t try this:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
$ wget -q -O - 
https://mirror.hydra.gnu.org/nar/p0kpcqzs4ylyni5yj8dv18kgj0x12zjb-wicd-1.7.3.tar.xz
 \
   | bunzip2 | guix archive -x /tmp/wicd.tar.xz
$ file /tmp/wicd.tar.xz 
/tmp/wicd.tar.xz: XZ compressed data
$ md5sum /tmp/wicd.tar.xz 
50f918b7a31eabe97f0ffa3c1bf08452  /tmp/wicd.tar.xz
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

It’s mentioned here:

  
https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Invoking-guix-challenge.html

Please do your homework before asserting things like this.

Ludo’.