Re: What to do when a package is removed upstream

2021-04-23 Thread Bonface Munyoki K .
Ricardo Wurmus writes: > Bonface Munyoki K. writes: > >>> You can use an ‘inferior’[0] Guix if you don't >>> mind the entire closure of python2-flask* being >>> frozen in the past -- possibly including >>> incompatibilities or known security >

Re: What to do when a package is removed upstream

2021-04-23 Thread Bonface Munyoki K .
Hi Tobias! Tobias Geerinckx-Rice writes: > Bonface, > > Bonface Munyoki K. writes: >> What do you do when you want to use a package that >> has already been removed from guix. An example is >> that I have a legacy project that I help maintain >> that still us

What to do when a package is removed upstream

2021-04-20 Thread Bonface Munyoki K .
Hi Guix! What do you do when you want to use a package that has already been removed from guix. An example is that I have a legacy project that I help maintain that still uses some old python2 packages. One of them is python2-flask*. Right now, as a work around, I manually write the package

Re: error: corrupt input while restoring archive from socket

2021-03-16 Thread Bonface Munyoki K .
Hi o/ Fulbert writes: > Le Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 04:59:42PM +0300, Mikhail Kryshen a écrit : >> Fulbert writes: >> >> > Hello Guixers, >> > >> > For the past few days… maybe a couple of weeks (not sure when >> > it started exactly), I have had frequent errors with >> > substitutions. Those