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From: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
Subject: Re: guixsd 0.15.0 install failure
Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2018 23:58:02 -0400
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	Woodcox's message of "Fri, 2 Nov 2018 16:46:43 -0600")
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To: Brian Woodcox <bw@inskydata.com>
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Brian Woodcox <bw@inskydata.com> writes:

> I posted before I saw Leo=E2=80=99s reply at any rate his method is proba=
bly better.
>
> In my case, from the /gnu/store directory, I entered:
>
> nano ./59pqd1d0ihqxx0i64yxk335vjmw78wmh-bzip2-1.0.6.tar.gz.drv
>
> and at the end of the line, I changed url from http://www.bzip.org/1.0.6/=
bzip2-1.0.6.tar.gz to
> https://github.com/past-due/bzip2-mirror/releases/download/v1.0.6/bzip2-1=
.0.6.tar.gz

It's important to never edit files in /gnu/store.  Everything in that
directory is assumed to be immutable, and if that assumption is
violated, Guix may later misbehave in non-obvious ways.

Please use Leo's method instead.

      Thanks,
        Mark