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authorLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2016-03-31 23:52:15 +0200
committerLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2016-04-01 00:05:42 +0200
commitf4033fb5da9f07dce2b8049b1d7214c492790581 (patch)
tree9be7be1a4c06eac93fba92eabbaf00db35412995
parentab83105bbe93cdaf10c4bdb4655428a2df8c7e24 (diff)
downloadguix-f4033fb5da9f07dce2b8049b1d7214c492790581.tar.gz
cvs: Disable compression.
Reported by Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org>.

* guix/build/cvs.scm (cvs-fetch): Use -z0.
-rw-r--r--guix/build/cvs.scm5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/guix/build/cvs.scm b/guix/build/cvs.scm
index 033b626b96..9976e624b3 100644
--- a/guix/build/cvs.scm
+++ b/guix/build/cvs.scm
@@ -52,7 +52,10 @@
   "Fetch REVISION from MODULE of CVS-ROOT-DIRECTORY into DIRECTORY.  REVISION
 must either be a date in ISO-8601 format (e.g. \"2012-12-21\") or a CVS tag.
 Return #t on success, #f otherwise."
-  (and (zero? (system* cvs-command "-z3"
+  ;; Use "-z0" because enabling compression leads to hangs during checkout on
+  ;; certain repositories, such as
+  ;; ":pserver:anonymous@cvs.savannah.gnu.org:/sources/gnustandards".
+  (and (zero? (system* cvs-command "-z0"
                        "-d" cvs-root-directory
                        "checkout"
                        (if (string-match "^[0-9]{4}-[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2}$" revision)