From: Brian Woodcox <bw@InSkyData.com>
To: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: guixsd 0.15.0 install failure
Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2018 22:49:33 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AF20B420-4200-4078-8BC3-A5B7982F6AE2@InSkyData.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sh0iak2i.fsf@netris.org>
Thanks Mark.
Will do. Being knew to Guix I wasn’t aware of the guix download command.
> On Nov 2, 2018, at 9:58 PM, Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> wrote:
>
> 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
prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-11-03 4:50 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
2018-11-03 4:49 ` Brian Woodcox [this message]
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