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From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
Subject: bug#25704: guix on other distribution fails to pull
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2017 12:11:51 -0500
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To: Tomas Cech <sleep_walker@gnu.org>
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On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 08:41:58AM +0100, Tomas Cech wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Feb 2017 04:58:33 +0100,
> Leo Famulari wrote:
> > 
> > On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 02:11:34PM +0100, Tomas Cech wrote:
> > Try starting the guix-daemon with
> > '--substitute-urls=https://hydra.gnu.org'. This will bypass the mirror
> > completely.
> > 
> > Let us know if it works and be sure to remove that URL afterwards; that
> > server cannot handle much traffic.
> > 
> 
> Thanks, I solved it some other way in the meantime. But thanks, this
> could work as well...
> 
> From single user perspective it is valid workaround but I'm aftraid
> that from guix package maintainer on foreign distribution it is not
> usable workaround...

Sure, and we know that `guix pull` needs to be overhauled. We've been
discussing its shortcomings and designing the replacement:

https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=22629
https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=22883