Hi Leo,
Leo Famulari writes:
> Substition is considered to fail when Guix is expecting a substitute but
> the server returns 404, 504, or some other unexpected problem occurs. It
> is not considered to fail if the server initially reports that no
> substitute is available.
Thank you for the cla
On Thu, 2017-11-09 at 13:05 -0800, Chris Marusich wrote:
> This sounds very similar to
>
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2017-05/msg00069.html
>
> in which the interaction between Guix-installed packages (emacs, in my
> case) and the XDG_DATA_DIRS environment variable caused the UI
On Fri, Nov 10 2017, Chris Marusich wrote:
> Anecdotally, I swear I've seen guix build some things from source even
> when I did not specify --fallback. Has anybody else seen that occur?
Yeah, I've definitely seen that. My assumption was that this is what's
meant to happen when substitutes aren'
On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 08:26:12AM +0100, Marco van Hulten wrote:
> kodi@watson ~$ time guix pull --cores=1
[...]
> compiling... 75.4% of 647 filesbuilding of
> `/gnu/store/gk5chb0dwpsq3na7b4gn1hd7h0h2b63h-guix-latest.drv' timed out after
> 3600 seconds of silence
[...]
> real 609m30.245s
> Thomas Sigurdsen writes:
>
> >> Secondly, I noted that with, e.g., 'guix package -i kodi' software gets
> >> compiled. I understood that GNU Guix is capable of both binary and
> >> source packages. Which should I typically expect? Can I choose?
Guix is a build-from-source system that can tr
Hello Marco,
On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 3:16 AM, Marco van Hulten wrote:
> ```
> root@watson ~# guix package -i openssh
> substitute: updating list of substitutes from
> 'https://mirror.hydra.gnu.org'... substitute: updating list of substitutes
> from 'https://mirror.hydra.gnu.org'... 100.0%
> sub
```
root@watson ~# guix package -i openssh
substitute: updating list of substitutes from 'https://mirror.hydra.gnu.org'...
substitute: updating list of substitutes from 'https://mirror.hydra.gnu.org'...
100.0%
substitute: updating list of substitutes from 'https://mirror.hydra.gnu.org'...
substi