Nixpkgs: Can't use Haskell stack to create a new project on Ubuntu

[bbarker]

Issue description

There appears to be a network issue of some sort, and due to past experiences with e.g., curl, I wonder if it is SSL related (though it doesn't appear to be):

$ stack new LearningHaskell
Downloading template "new-template" to create project "LearningHaskell" in LearningHaskell/ ...

Warning: Retry number 0 after a total delay of 0 us
         If you see this warning and stack fails to download, but running the command again solves the problem, please report here:
         https://github.com/commercialhaskell/stack/issues/3510

Warning: Retry number 1 after a total delay of 100000 us
         If you see this warning and stack fails to download, but running the command again solves the problem, please report here:
         https://github.com/commercialhaskell/stack/issues/3510

Warning: Retry number 2 after a total delay of 200000 us
         If you see this warning and stack fails to download, but running the command again solves the problem, please report here:
         https://github.com/commercialhaskell/stack/issues/3510

Warning: Retry number 3 after a total delay of 300000 us
         If you see this warning and stack fails to download, but running the command again solves the problem, please report here:
         https://github.com/commercialhaskell/stack/issues/3510
HttpExceptionRequest Request {
  host                 = "raw.githubusercontent.com"
  port                 = 443
  secure               = True
  requestHeaders       = []
  path                 = "/commercialhaskell/stack-templates/master/new-template.hsfiles"
  queryString          = ""
  method               = "GET"
  proxy                = Nothing
  rawBody              = False
  redirectCount        = 10
  responseTimeout      = ResponseTimeoutDefault
  requestVersion       = HTTP/1.1
}
 (ConnectionFailure Network.BSD.getProtocolByName: does not exist (no such protocol name: tcp))

Steps to reproduce

I just installed stack using nix-env, see above for how to reproduce.

Technical details

• system: "x86_64-linux"
• host os: Linux 4.13.0-38-generic, Ubuntu, 16.04.3 LTS (Xenial Xerus)
• multi-user?: no
• sandbox: no
• version: nix-env (Nix) 1.11.16
• channels(brandon): "nixpkgs-18.09pre137305.d91caac6c3e, nixos-18.09pre134828.62dc989963c"
• nixpkgs: /nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/brandon/channels/nixpkgs

 $ stack --version | head
Version 1.6.5 x86_64
Compiled with:
- Cabal-2.0.1.0
- Glob-0.9.2
- HUnit-1.6.0.0
- QuickCheck-2.10.1
- StateVar-1.1.0.4
- aeson-1.2.4.0
- aeson-compat-0.3.7.1
- annotated-wl-pprint-0.7.0

[ryantm]

This works for me on NixOS. I'll try my Ubuntu VM later.

[bbarker]

After running into this again elsewhere, I saw https://github.com/bos/wreq/issues/5#issuecomment-108086543

The workaround is to install apt install netbase; not sure what the equivalent nixos package is yet.

[zimbatm]

The nixos-equivalent is iana-etc

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