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

[Mark H Weaver]

Hi Ludovic,

Is there way to change the URI used to fetch the coreutils patch
'coreutils-tail-inotify-race.patch', as I tried to do in 1a51cbc825,
but without triggering a full rebuild?

      Mark


Mark H Weaver <address@hidden> writes:

> Mark H Weaver <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> 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.
>
> I had to revert this, because it caused a full rebuild.
> To be continued...
>
>      Mark