Re: Question: purging a package from the store

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl> skribis:

> On Wed, Jun 08, 2016 at 03:33:50PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> Hello!
>> 
>> Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl> skribis:
>> 
>> > Our caching server gives a consistent failure for one package. It
>> > exists in the store and 'guix gc checks' pass.
>> >
>> >   guix substitute: error: download from
>> >   'http://guix.genenetwork.org:8080/nar/sqd3q1xq5fsbga00bwhghi9shi7xdaac-gtk+-3.18.2'
>> >   failed: 404, "Not Found"
>> 
>> It looks a lot like <http://bugs.gnu.org/21888>, which we should really
>> fix now.
>
> Confirmed. The bug is fixed, even running publish on the 'wrong' locale.

Great!

Also, you can now run:

  guix publish --ttl=3d

if you want to make sure users don’t see “updating the list of
substitutes” too often.  ;-)

But see the note in the manual about it.

Ludo’.