Greg Hogan <c...@greghogan.com> writes:

> On Mon, May 12, 2025 at 12:23 PM Rutherther <ruthert...@ditigal.xyz> wrote:
>
> So for the (small?) subset of users (myself included) who do not
> enable substitutes, then for the small set of packages provided
> pre-built with the installation ...
>
>>> guix depends on gnutls
> guix@1.4.0-36.0772d36
> guile-gnutls@4.0.0
> gnutls@3.8.3

Yeah, which means users cannot pull from 1.4.0
See this thread 
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2025-04/msg00205.html

>
> Can we not retry mirrors on checksum mismatch? 

I don't know why not. I would also think it's good way to mitigate
issues like this. But my main point was meant to be that I think issues
like that will happen in the future as well, so having old releases
means users have to deal with them more often.

> Does use of SWH require substitutes to be enabled?

SWH should be used even without substitutes to my knowledge.

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