Re: Unable to upgrade packages

[Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>]

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On Sat, May 06, 2017 at 03:16:11PM +0200, Niall Dooley wrote:
> It seems I'm unable to upgrade installed packages with Guix. Below is the
> output from the terminal. As you see I first tried to get the latest Guix
> before upgrading. Is this an necessary step?
> 
> In any case, it was unsuccessful too. I don't believe I've ever been able
> to
> upgrade packages. I've only trieda few times from memory. Before today I
> did
> try the --fallback option as the error messages suggest but it seemed to be
> downloading many files and as I was unsure what it was actually doing I
> abandoned it.

If you get 404 responses during `guix pull`, please let us know, since
--fallback is not yet implemented for `guix pull`.

For other commands that return 404 from our servers, you can either use
--fallback (build from source) and wait ~5 minutes, which is about how
long it takes for the mirror to populate itself after the first request
for some resource.

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