[Nix-dev] Current stdenv is Broken in Absence of Substitutors

[Lluís Batlle i Rossell]

On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 03:27:22PM -0400, Shea Levy wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Due to a license issue, the GNU mirrors no longer contain
> binutils-2.21.tar.bz2
> (http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2011-08/msg00198.html).
> Therefore, building stdenv fails in a non-standard nix store
> location or if substitutors are not used. I can think of two ways to
> fix this: Upload the tarball somewhere and update the expression in
> trunk, or start the process of merging stdenv-updates (which has
> already updated to 2.21.1a) into trunk. I'd prefer the latter,
> especially since hosting binutils-2.21.tar.bz2 may violate licenses
> subtly. Thoughts?

Niksnut wondered, why the content-addressed mirror did not work. Any idea why?
Maybe that mirror balances the storage in favour of those most requested?
(stdenv pieces having more chances to fall of the mirror)

Regards,
Lluís