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Re: guixsd 0.15.0 install failure


From: Mark H Weaver
Subject: Re: guixsd 0.15.0 install failure
Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2018 23:58:02 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (gnu/linux)

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



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