Hello Ludo,

On Mon, Jun 24, 2024 at 8:49 AM Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
Vincent Legoll <vincent.legoll@gmail.com> skribis:

> I wanted to try a fresh guix in a VM, but the "Download / Latest"
> page (1) does not have the:
> "QCOW2 virtual machine (VM) image"
> "GNU Guix 1.4.0 QEMU Image"
> that is available on the "Download / Standard" page (2)

This is now fixed:

  https://guix.gnu.org/en/download/latest/

For the record, the problem was that we’d be removing GC roots too
early, which was fixed here:

  https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix/maintenance.git/commit/?id=489fc437c7b3aa0af41a40d6090eb4c51ced0028

Yes, I remember seeing some discussion about this.

But I tried to have a new look at :
https://guix.gnu.org/en/download/latest/

But with another browser, another computer, reloading the page in firefox,
or even forced reloading (CTRL+F5) I'm still not seeing the x86_64 qcow2.

Is there some propagation delay, or something on my side that is wrong ?
 
> BTW, DL latest page also lacks checksum files to verify integrity.

Since this process is automated, there cannot be a signature to verify
the authenticity of those binaries (integrity is most likely verified
indirectly via embedded checksums in the container formats).

That's why I spoke about checksum and not signatures, I'm not talking
about authenticity, but just about DL checking.

I don't really know if qcow has integrated checksums, but I doubt raw
image does. So I think this could still  have some usefulness.

Thanks

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Vincent Legoll