Re: guixsd 0.15.0 install failure

[Brian Woodcox]

Thanks Mark.

Will do.  Being knew to Guix I wasn’t aware of the guix download command.


> On Nov 2, 2018, at 9:58 PM, Mark H Weaver <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> Brian Woodcox <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>> I posted before I saw Leo’s reply at any rate his method is probably 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