From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, Petter <petter@mykolab.ch>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: Mention "guix pull" during installation.
Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2016 12:00:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87inqho626.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161217173856.GA30440@jasmine> (Leo Famulari's message of "Sat, 17 Dec 2016 12:38:56 -0500")
Hello!
Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> skribis:
> I've recently gave an explanation of why I think using `guix pull`
> before installing GuixSD should not be recommended unconditionally:
>
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-guix/2016-11/msg00047.html
>
> In the specific case of installing GuixSD 0.11.0 today, `guix pull` is
> necessary, because we lack the substitutes, and some packages can't be
> built at all now [1]. But, adding these lines to the manual now won't
> make it show up in the 0.11.0 installer manual.
>
> I think we should work on improving our infrastructure in the next
> release cycle, and revisit this change to the manual if we are still
> having problems before the 0.13.0 release.
>
> What does everyone think?
I agree with everything you wrote here.
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-12-18 11:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-12-16 8:38 [PATCH] doc: Mention "guix pull" during installation Petter
2016-12-17 17:38 ` Leo Famulari
2016-12-18 11:00 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2016-12-19 7:41 ` Alex Sassmannshausen
2016-12-18 12:05 ` Theodoros Foradis
2016-12-19 8:09 ` Ra
2016-12-19 10:52 ` Ludovic Courtès
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