bug#21784: Old XZ tarballs

2015-11-02 Thread Lasse Collin
On 2015-11-01 Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Lasse Collin skribis: > > > On 2015-10-30 Ludovic Courtès wrote: > > [...] > > >> Guix does automatically mirror tarballs via its “substitute” > >> mechanism. However, users can turn it off, in which case they end > >> up downloading the tarball from the u

bug#21784: Old XZ tarballs

2015-11-02 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Lasse Collin skribis: > On 2015-11-01 Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> Lasse Collin skribis: >> >> > On 2015-10-30 Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> >> [...] >> >> >> Guix does automatically mirror tarballs via its “substitute” >> >> mechanism. However, users can turn it off, in which case they end >> >> up

bug#21784: Old XZ tarballs

2015-11-02 Thread Lasse Collin
On 2015-11-02 Ludovic Courtès wrote: > No problem. It is best if URLs remain stable over time, but I > understand there are cost constraints related to hosting. > > Maybe an option for you in the longer term would be to use a service > such as savannah.gnu.org, which could host tarballs virtually

bug#21784: Old XZ tarballs

2015-11-02 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Lasse Collin skribis: > On 2015-11-02 Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> No problem. It is best if URLs remain stable over time, but I >> understand there are cost constraints related to hosting. >> >> Maybe an option for you in the longer term would be to use a service >> such as savannah.gnu.org, whic

bug#21817: Extraneous argument to guix gc is ignored

2015-11-02 Thread Berntsen, Petter
Hi guys, Running a command like "guix gc help", the "help" argument is ignored and the command proceeds like just "guix gc" was run. I would have preferred if it would have stopped and complained instead whenever something is unclear. What do you think? (I assume this happens with other gui

bug#21068: bug#21224: guix system init --no-grub doesn't work

2015-11-02 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Mark H Weaver skribis: > I ran into the same problem while porting GuixSD to MIPS, before I had > GRUB working. > > The problem here is that the method for copying the necessary store > items to the target directory is to copy grub.cfg and its transitive > closure, using (maybe-copy grub.cfg). >