Re: Missing patch on savannah means coreutils can't build

[Mark H Weaver]

Christopher Allan Webber <address@hidden> writes:

> Efraim Flashner writes:
>
>> On Sat, 20 Feb 2016 10:19:51 -0800
>> Christopher Allan Webber <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>>> Earlier today I tried doing a build without substitutes.  I was
>>> surprised to see this error:
>>> 
>>> Starting download of 
>>> /gnu/store/hg3692jqq4jmhg4qx8d7y67fspimy898-?id=3ba68f9e64fa2eb8af22d510437a0c6441feb5e0
>>> From 
>>> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/patch/?id=3ba68f9e64fa2eb8af22d510437a0c6441feb5e0...
>>>  patch                                         1.2MiB/s 00:00 | 1KiB 
>>> transferred
>>> output path 
>>> `/gnu/store/hg3692jqq4jmhg4qx8d7y67fspimy898-?id=3ba68f9e64fa2eb8af22d510437a0c6441feb5e0'
>>>  should have sha256 hash 
>>> `1dnlszhc8lihhg801i9sz896mlrgfsjfcz62636prb27k5hmixqz', instead has 
>>> `0zygncr1z1nswmny2vl1havfqswm40vzj0vjvhf5yndavhzr267j'
>>> 
>>> From the coreutils definition:
>>>             (patches
>>>              (list (origin
>>>                      (method url-fetch)
>>>                      (uri "http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/\
>>> patch/?id=3ba68f9e64fa2eb8af22d510437a0c6441feb5e0")
>>>                      (sha256
>>>                       (base32
>>>                        
>>> "1dnlszhc8lihhg801i9sz896mlrgfsjfcz62636prb27k5hmixqz"))
>>>                      (file-name "coreutils-tail-inotify-race.patch"))))))
>>> 
>>> But indeed, it's not surprising that there's a hash mismatch... there's
>>> nothing here!
>>> 
>>>   
>>> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/patch/?id=3ba68f9e64fa2eb8af22d510437a0c6441feb5e0
>>> 
>>
>> I updated coreutils on core-updates which included removing the patch from
>> the package definition.
>
> Thanks!  In case it's useful, here's a patch which includes the patch
> itself rather than pulling it down via http.

I fixed this differently, in commit 1a51cbc825, by simply removing the
"/" before the "?" in the URL.

     Thanks!
       Mark