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Subject: Re: guixsd 0.15.0 install failure
Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2018 22:49:33 -0600
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Thanks Mark.

Will do.  Being knew to Guix I wasn=E2=80=99t aware of the guix download com=
mand.


> On Nov 2, 2018, at 9:58 PM, Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> wrote:
>=20
> Brian Woodcox <bw@inskydata.com> writes:
>=20
>> I posted before I saw Leo=E2=80=99s reply at any rate his method is proba=
bly better.
>>=20
>> In my case, from the /gnu/store directory, I entered:
>>=20
>> nano ./59pqd1d0ihqxx0i64yxk335vjmw78wmh-bzip2-1.0.6.tar.gz.drv
>>=20
>> 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
>=20
> 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.
>=20
> Please use Leo's method instead.
>=20
>      Thanks,
>        Mark