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Re: successful installation, but problems updating
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Leo Famulari |
Subject: |
Re: successful installation, but problems updating |
Date: |
Sat, 11 Nov 2017 20:29:04 -0500 |
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Mutt/1.9.1 (2017-09-22) |
On Sat, Nov 11, 2017 at 10:29:30AM -0500, myglc2 wrote:
> On 11/10/2017 at 15:30 Chris Marusich writes:
> > Thank you for the clarification. This is what I did not understand. I
> > read the manual and got the impression that when --fallback has not been
> > given, if a given substitute cannot be found (regardless of whether or
> > not a substitute server claimed to provide one), then Guix will not
> > build it. I see now that my understanding was mistaken.
>
> I had this mistaken impression too.
It's important to remember that Guix is a build-from-source system. The
use of pre-compiled binaries is an optimization made possible by the
functional package model.
> +When substitutes are enabled (the default) and a substitute is not
> +available the build will take place locally. If a substitute is
> +available but substitution fails, e.g., the substitute server returns
> +404, 504, times out, or some other unexpected problem occurs, guix stops
> +and reports an error unless --fallback or --keep-going options are
> +specified.
To clarify, the default status of substitutes is different for Guix
(default disabled) and GuixSD (default enabled).
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- Re: successful installation, but problems updating, Thomas Sigurdsen, 2017/11/06
- Re: successful installation, but problems updating, Chris Marusich, 2017/11/10
- Re: successful installation, but problems updating, Leo Famulari, 2017/11/10
- Re: successful installation, but problems updating, Chris Marusich, 2017/11/10
- Re: successful installation, but problems updating, myglc2, 2017/11/11
- Re: successful installation, but problems updating, Chris Marusich, 2017/11/11
- Re: successful installation, but problems updating, myglc2, 2017/11/11
- Re: successful installation, but problems updating,
Leo Famulari <=
- Re: successful installation, but problems updating, myglc2, 2017/11/11
- Re: successful installation, but problems updating, Leo Famulari, 2017/11/11
- Re: successful installation, but problems updating, Chris Marusich, 2017/11/12
- Re: successful installation, but problems updating, Carlo Zancanaro, 2017/11/10
Re: successful installation, but problems updating, Carlo Zancanaro, 2017/11/06
- Re: successful installation, but problems updating, Marco van Hulten, 2017/11/06
- Re: successful installation, but problems updating, Ludovic Courtès, 2017/11/07
- Re: successful installation, but problems updating, Marco van Hulten, 2017/11/07
- Re: successful installation, but problems updating, Marco van Hulten, 2017/11/07
- Re: successful installation, but problems updating, Marco van Hulten, 2017/11/09