[Nix-dev] gnutls broken

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi Peter,

Peter Simons <simons at cryp.to> skribis:

>  > Author: ludo
>  > Date: Tue Jan 31 15:02:38 2012
>  > New Revision: 31946
>  > URL: https://nixos.org/websvn/nix/?rev=31946&sc=1
>  >
>  > Log:
>  > GNU Guile 2.0.5.
>
> it appears that this update broke gnutls, which is in turn required by
> many other packages.

The problem is actually unrelated to Guile: the test suite of GnuTLS has
programs that attempt to use some TCP port, and if they happen to be
scheduled concurrently on the same physical machine on Hydra, then one
of the builds will fail.  This is why, for instance, the i686-linux
build succeeded, whereas the x86_64-linux build failed.

Eelco: Can you please restart <http://hydra.nixos.org/build/1962555>?
It’s likely to succeed.

Besides, I’ve emailed gnutls-devel in search of a solution:

  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnutls-devel/2012-01/msg00120.html

On the Nix side, one solution may be to use containers when using Linux.

Thanks,
Ludo’.