bug#25775: Attempts to fix bootstrap Guile bug

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Leo Famulari <address@hidden> writes:

> What about Ricardo's "really gross fix"? [0] I don't understand it enough to
> know why it's gross. If it works and does not break other things, at
> least it could protect people who have not yet hit the bug, but will hit
> it the next time they run `guix pull`.

It’s gross because it’s just a band aid.  I don’t know if it might break
other things (in my short tests it didn’t).  It shouldn’t affect people
with new daemons, because they will use the daemon’s download feature.

I guess we could just push it to fix “guix pull” now and revert later
once we have a good fix (or if it causes trouble).

What do you think?

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Ricardo

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