bug#66189: closed ([gnu.org #1975364] Broken link in Guix manual.)

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> [gnu.org #1975364] Broken link in Guix manual.
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> Mon, 25 Sep 2023 04:05:43 -0400
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> Hello Guix maintainers,
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> Thanks in advance for fixing this link!
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> Thérèse
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> Le Jeu 14 Sep 2023 09:14:20, yuval.langer@gmail.com a écrit :
> > The link to
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> > https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-system-vm-image-e5f7c14.x86_64-linux.qcow2
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> > https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/Running-Guix-in-a-VM.html
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> > is broken.
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> > There are other qcow2 files in that directory, but not the one linked.
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> > Thank you,
> > Yuval Langer.
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> Re: bug#66189: [gnu.org #1975364] Broken link in Guix manual.
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> Hi,            
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> Simon Tournier <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> writes:
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> > Hi,
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> >> Le Jeu 14 Sep 2023 09:14:20, yuval.langer@gmail.com a écrit :
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> >>> https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-system-vm-image-e5f7c14.x86_64-linux.qcow2
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> >>> in
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> >>> https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/Running-Guix-in-a-VM.html
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> >>> is broken.
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> > Yes, the link is automatically generated by,
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> > @url{@value{BASE-URL}/guix-system-vm-image-@value{VERSION}.x86_64-linux.qcow2}
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> > For instance, today the last manual correspond to Guix revision faf3ca
> > and the link in this development manual reads,
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> > https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-system-vm-image-fafd3ca.x86_64-linux.qcow2
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> > To my knowledge, no one is pushing to FTP all these images.  As signaled
> > in the URL, this manual is the development manual (/devel/) continuously
> > generated and not the standard one carefully checked before release.
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> > Well, discussion about the URL scheme is tracked by #51000 [1].
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> > 1: https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/51000
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> Since there's already a discussion tracked there, and since I don't see
> how we could easily improve on things here, I'm closing this as not a
> bug.
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> Thanks,
> Maxim
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