lulz: i was not expecting AT ALL that icecat, suggested publicly, the only package i needed (for now), the kick start, would fail to install... (lol: please tell murphy to leave the room)... when is fixed 'there' do i use "pull" or "package upgrade"? []r. On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 7:30 PM, -=}\*/{=- wrote: > hi... :) > > i'm just a gun fan... > > i use linux since 2000, debian. > had a try with nixos, then i found guix. > i' running it on top of jessie to use icecat as richard stallman suggests. > > i'm doing it for the kick's of it. > i barely really understand what you say. > > i just want to use icecat and get acquainted with the new gnu system and > integrate it well along with debian... for now. > > []r. > > On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 7:20 PM, Efraim Flashner > wrote: > >> On Thu, 29 Oct 2015 07:30:39 +0000 >> "-=}\\*/{=-" wrote: >> >> > starting download of >> > `/gnu/store/0d7xnp3nji2mi4cw4jmd3mzbpija9a5a-xz-5.0.4.tar.gz' from ` >> > http://tukaani.org/xz/xz-5.0.4.tar.gz'... >> > ERROR: download failed "http://tukaani.org/xz/xz-5.0.4.tar.gz" 403 >> > "Forbidden" >> > failed to download >> > "/gnu/store/0d7xnp3nji2mi4cw4jmd3mzbpija9a5a-xz-5.0.4.tar.gz" from " >> > http://tukaani.org/xz/xz-5.0.4.tar.gz" >> > builder for >> > `/gnu/store/1y6b3ar37ff4q16714m77d56giv01cr5-xz-5.0.4.tar.gz.drv' >> failed to >> > produce output path >> > `/gnu/store/0d7xnp3nji2mi4cw4jmd3mzbpija9a5a-xz-5.0.4.tar.gz' >> >> from tukaani.org/xz: >> >> Important >> >> Availability of .tar.gz and .tar.bz2 files of certain old XZ Utils >> versions >> have been temporary suspended because they are consume too much of the web >> hosting bandwidth quota. The files will be restored in November 2015, but >> further changes may be needed if the problem persist. Sorry for the >> inconvenience. >> >> It would be nice if developers of source-based distributions had their own >> mirrors from where the users' computers would download the source >> packages. >> It's not good if a package manager on every user's machine downloads the >> source package from the upstream site. >> >> If we didn't need xz to unpack the tarball we could switch it. 5.0.4 is >> pretty old, is that for the bootstrap? >> >> -- >> Efraim Flashner אפרים פלשנר >> GPG key = A28B F40C 3E55 1372 662D 14F7 41AA E7DC CA3D 8351 >> Confidentiality cannot be guaranteed on emails sent or received >> unencrypted >> > >