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On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 12:45:49AM -0400, Ethan Stefan Day wrote:
> -The installer requires P to proceed.
> -Hydra does not have the binary for P (it is silently ignoring bad URLs).
> -The '--fallback' option for 'guix system init' will not work because of
> the bad URLs.  (although I think the intent was for users to not have to
> use that anyway)

We should at least be able to re-add the source code to Hydra, and
hopefully the binaries. Since the source code is content-addressed, it
can be fetched from many places, such as the local /gnu/store, an URL,
the substitutes server, and also content-addressed mirrors [0] (but not
in 0.10.0).

In the worst case, users can find new source URLs and use `guix
download` to add the source code of missing binaries whose source URLs
have changed to the store.

We should think about how to make the release tags more resilient.

> If my concern is based on accurate understanding, I would be willing to
> test it.  I was about to reinstall GuixSD on metal for unrelated reasons.

Yes, please report anything that's missing.

[0]
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?id=cd436bf05a8344acf4462f3602e7d360821a902a