Re: Update freedesktop sources to use HTTPS.

[Efraim Flashner]

On Fri, 19 Feb 2016 14:29:26 +0100
Andy Wingo <address@hidden> wrote:

> While doing a big ol' rebuild, I was getting errors like this:
> 
> Starting download of 
> /gnu/store/v55hic2g257hk2bc5bmr9abslf649pc0-fontconfig-2.11.94.tar.bz2
> From 
> http://www.freedesktop.org/software/fontconfig/release/fontconfig-2.11.94.tar.bz2...
> following redirection to 
> `https://www.freedesktop.org/software/fontconfig/release/fontconfig-2.11.94.tar.bz2'...
> ;;; Failed to autoload make-session in (gnutls):
> ;;; ERROR: missing interface for module (gnutls)
> ERROR: In procedure module-lookup: Unbound variable: make-session
> failed to download 
> "/gnu/store/v55hic2g257hk2bc5bmr9abslf649pc0-fontconfig-2.11.94.tar.bz2" from 
> "http://www.freedesktop.org/software/fontconfig/release/fontconfig-2.11.94.tar.bz2";
> builder for 
> `/gnu/store/mmbscw7df218xl0akmld7v8y3lx975fk-fontconfig-2.11.94.tar.bz2.drv' 
> failed to produce output path 
> `/gnu/store/v55hic2g257hk2bc5bmr9abslf649pc0-fontconfig-2.11.94.tar.bz2'
> 
> I suspect that hydra and other builders don't see this error because the
> package is already in the store.  Apparently Guix only includes gnutls
> as an input when the URL starts with https, so this sort of redirection
> is not so great for Guix.  The attached patch updates all
> freedesktop.org URLs to use https; apparently sourceforge too will need
> the same treatment.
> 
> Andy
> 

sourceforge should be a bit easier because of the mirror://sourceforge

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