Re: A real-life test of long-term reproducibility

[Konrad Hinsen <konrad.hinsen@fastmail.net>]

Hi Ludo and Simon,

> Sorry I replied to quickly; it should have been
> ‘--disable-authentication’.
>
> Why?  Because here you’re trying to travel to a commit that’s not part
> of the “authenticated history”—that is, it’s not a descendant of the
> “introductory commit”, which is the first commit in history starting
> from which the “authentication invariant” holds.
>
> Hopefully this is clearer; maybe?  :-)

It's perfectly clear. I just wonder how I would find the solution
starting from the error message.

zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> writes:

>> And explain what it's about. I don't consider myself an absolute
>> beginner with Guix, but I don't understand what's going on here!
>
> Well, it is documented. ;-) The entry of ’time-machine’ [1] is the
> manual says:
...

Same remark: How would I get to that section of the manual from the
error message?

> I agree it could be improved.  Any suggestion? :-)

My impression is that the error message I quoted is very specific to
this situation, so it could actually say "Retry with
--disable-authentication if you are sure that there is no security
issue". Right?

Cheers,
  Konrad.