Jookia <166291@gmail.com> skribis: > After building netpbm from source using no substitutes, running this command: > > % guix build --source netpbm --check > > Will use the checked out source files in /gnu/store rather than redownloading > from the project SVN repostiory. This is unlike this command: > > % guix build --source guix --check > > Which will refetch Guix from the project's Git repository. Sources without patches/snippets translate to “fixed-output derivations”—i.e., derivations for which the hash of the output is known in advance. Thus, it doesn’t make sense to --check the result of such derivations: if the result available, it’s necessarily correct (IOW, it has the expected hash.) Now, although this doesn’t make much sense, the daemon supports it (which is fine.) In the case of netpbm, there’s a difference: netpbm’s origin has a ‘snippet’, so what ‘guix build --source netpbm’ returns is the derivation that applies the snippet to the upstream source, not the derivation that downloads the upstream source. Thus, ‘guix build netpbm --source --check’ rebuilds the derivation that applies the snippet, not the derivation that does the svn checkout. Hope this clarifies things! Ludo’.