From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: Unable to upgrade packages Date: Tue, 09 May 2017 23:34:59 +0200 Message-ID: <87h90tww70.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20170507192709.GC1314@jasmine> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59710) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d8Cmf-0003l5-I5 for Help-Guix@gnu.org; Tue, 09 May 2017 17:35:06 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d8Cmc-0005G1-FJ for Help-Guix@gnu.org; Tue, 09 May 2017 17:35:05 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20170507192709.GC1314@jasmine> (Leo Famulari's message of "Sun, 7 May 2017 15:27:09 -0400") List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Help-Guix" To: Leo Famulari Cc: help-guix Leo Famulari skribis: > 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? >>=20 >> 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`. Finally fixed! https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?id=3D4902d3c4e03769743= 56481f222583580b49f39e1 So once you have successfully run =E2=80=9Cguix pull=E2=80=9D, you=E2=80=99= ll have a =E2=80=9Cguix pull=E2=80=9D that honors --fallback=E2=80=A6 Ludo=E2=80=99.