Build failure: parmetis

[eessmann]

Steps To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. build parmetis

Build log

error: builder for '/nix/store/z3867f0hzpb63jrv5hygm1la9ih6fp64-parmetis-4.0.3.tar.gz.drv' failed with exit code 1;
       last 25 log lines:
       > calling 'envHostTargetHook' function hook 'sdkRootHook' /nix/store/kd4xwxjpjxi71jkm6ka0np72if9rm3y0-move-sbin.sh
       > calling 'envHostTargetHook' function hook 'sdkRootHook' /nix/store/pag6l61paj1dc9sv15l7bm5c17xn5kyk-move-systemd-user-units.sh
       > calling 'envHostTargetHook' function hook 'sdkRootHook' /nix/store/jivxp510zxakaaic7qkrb7v1dd2rdbw9-multiple-outputs.sh
       > calling 'envHostTargetHook' function hook 'sdkRootHook' /nix/store/ilaf1w22bxi6jsi45alhmvvdgy4ly3zs-patch-shebangs.sh
       > calling 'envHostTargetHook' function hook 'sdkRootHook' /nix/store/cickvswrvann041nqxb0rxilc46svw1n-prune-libtool-files.sh
       > calling 'envHostTargetHook' function hook 'sdkRootHook' /nix/store/xyff06pkhki3qy1ls77w10s0v79c9il0-reproducible-builds.sh
       > calling 'envHostTargetHook' function hook 'sdkRootHook' /nix/store/aazf105snicrlvyzzbdj85sx4179rpfp-set-source-date-epoch-to-latest.sh
       > calling 'envHostTargetHook' function hook 'sdkRootHook' /nix/store/gps9qrh99j7g02840wv5x78ykmz30byp-strip.sh
       > calling 'envHostTargetHook' function hook 'sdkRootHook' /nix/store/hfnsr0jxvygasydamz696qdq5xckpsb8-apple-framework-CoreFoundation-11.0.0
       >
       > trying http://glaros.dtc.umn.edu/gkhome/fetch/sw/parmetis/parmetis-4.0.3.tar.gz
       >   % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
       >                                  Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
       >   0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:--  0:01:15 --:--:--     0
       > curl: (28) Failed to connect to glaros.dtc.umn.edu port 80 after 75221 ms: Couldn't connect to server
       > Warning: Problem : timeout. Will retry in 1 seconds. 3 retries left.
       >   0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:--  0:01:15 --:--:--     0
       > curl: (28) Failed to connect to glaros.dtc.umn.edu port 80 after 75003 ms: Couldn't connect to server
       > Warning: Problem : timeout. Will retry in 2 seconds. 2 retries left.
       >   0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:--  0:01:15 --:--:--     0
       > curl: (28) Failed to connect to glaros.dtc.umn.edu port 80 after 75002 ms: Couldn't connect to server
       > Warning: Problem : timeout. Will retry in 4 seconds. 1 retries left.
       >   0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:--  0:01:15 --:--:--     0
       > curl: (28) Failed to connect to glaros.dtc.umn.edu port 80 after 75002 ms: Couldn't connect to server
       > error: cannot download parmetis-4.0.3.tar.gz from any mirror
       For full logs, run 'nix log /nix/store/z3867f0hzpb63jrv5hygm1la9ih6fp64-parmetis-4.0.3.tar.gz.drv'.
error: 1 dependencies of derivation '/nix/store/g585nhkrfkjakagzrzbfprdn9b1chxi4-parmetis-4.0.3.drv' failed to build
error: 1 dependencies of derivation '/nix/store/m57i1n5cyh71sy7gags0c1gzdw81x8cv-petsc-3.21.3.drv' failed to build
error: 1 dependencies of derivation '/nix/store/sghmvc5j0lylc0pmfdhyvcx4bzp3vclz-nix-shell-env.drv' failed to build

Additional context

The package homepage, parmetis is timing out as well.

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Metadata

 - system: `"aarch64-darwin"`
 - host os: `Darwin 23.5.0, macOS 14.5`
 - multi-user?: `yes`
 - sandbox: `no`
 - version: `nix-env (Lix, like Nix) 2.90.0`
 - channels(root): `"nixpkgs"`
 - nixpkgs: `/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root/channels/nixpkgs`
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[ghpzin]

Related PR:
#329102

[cheriimoya]

As a quick fix / workaround, you can use nix-prefetch-url https://web.archive.org/http://glaros.dtc.umn.edu/gkhome/fetch/sw/parmetis/parmetis-4.0.3.tar.gz and then build again.

[eessmann]

Thank you very much, it is working with the fix.