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From: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
To: Brian Woodcox <bw@inskydata.com>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: guixsd 0.15.0 install failure
Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2018 23:58:02 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sh0iak2i.fsf@netris.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1114E3F0-AC24-4655-8B4F-D562EDBD85B7@inskydata.com> (Brian Woodcox's message of "Fri, 2 Nov 2018 16:46:43 -0600")

Brian Woodcox <bw@inskydata.com> writes:

> I posted before I saw Leo’s reply at any rate his method is probably better.
>
> In my case, from the /gnu/store directory, I entered:
>
> nano ./59pqd1d0ihqxx0i64yxk335vjmw78wmh-bzip2-1.0.6.tar.gz.drv
>
> and at the end of the line, I changed url from http://www.bzip.org/1.0.6/bzip2-1.0.6.tar.gz to
> https://github.com/past-due/bzip2-mirror/releases/download/v1.0.6/bzip2-1.0.6.tar.gz

It's important to never edit files in /gnu/store.  Everything in that
directory is assumed to be immutable, and if that assumption is
violated, Guix may later misbehave in non-obvious ways.

Please use Leo's method instead.

      Thanks,
        Mark

  reply	other threads:[~2018-11-03  4:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-11-02 18:34 guixsd 0.15.0 install failure Anthony Eslick
2018-11-02 20:30 ` Leo Famulari
2018-11-02 21:18 ` Brian Woodcox
2018-11-02 22:46 ` Brian Woodcox
2018-11-03  3:58   ` Mark H Weaver [this message]
2018-11-03  4:49     ` Brian Woodcox

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