bug#35561: Fresh install, guix pull exits with error, hash mismatch

[Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>]

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Ludo',

Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> The reason substitutes were not used is that Guix cached the 
> fact that
> substitutes weren’t available.  They became available in the 
> meantime
> but the cached entry hasn’t expired yet.
>
> To work around it, you could wait some more :-), or you can do:
>
>   guix pull --substitute-urls=https://berlin.guixsd.org
>
> berlin.guixsd.org provides the same contents as ci.guix.gnu.org.
> However, that will trick Guix into building a fresh cache for 
> that
> machine.

I just ‘sudo rm -rf /var/guix/substitute/cache/*’ when this 
happens, and it seems to work, but I'm curious why you didn't 
recommend it here.

Kind regards,

T G-R

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