From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Brett Gilio Subject: bug#38608: enable --fallback for the guix graphical installer Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2019 20:02:36 -0600 Message-ID: <878sn2jxab.fsf@gnu.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:54013) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ijZXL-0005K1-4t for bug-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Dec 2019 21:03:04 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ijZXK-0004qJ-9i for bug-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Dec 2019 21:03:03 -0500 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:45893) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ijZXK-0004pz-6V for bug-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Dec 2019 21:03:02 -0500 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ijZXK-0002rg-30 for bug-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Dec 2019 21:03:02 -0500 Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-Message-ID: In-Reply-To: (Nathan Dehnel's message of "Sat, 14 Dec 2019 00:45:06 -0600") List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Guix List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "bug-Guix" To: Nathan Dehnel Cc: 38608@debbugs.gnu.org Nathan Dehnel writes: > I can't install guix because I keep getting substitute download errors. > > It's really punishing having to restart the install process after a > download error. > I actually don't know how our installer works that well, so I am going to leave the issue of whether to default to `--fallback` is the right decision to somebody else. However, for anybody reading this: does our installer dump logs anywhere? That seems like a more useful bit of information so we can triage and possibily fix why you are not receiving substitutes. -- Brett M. Gilio GNU Guix, Contributor | GNU Project, Webmaster [DFC0 C7F7 9EE6 0CA7 AE55 5E19 6722 43C4 A03F 0EEE]