Thanks Mark. Will do. Being knew to Guix I wasn’t aware of the guix download command.
> On Nov 2, 2018, at 9:58 PM, Mark H Weaver <m...@netris.org> wrote: > > Brian Woodcox <b...@inskydata.com> 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
