Subject: Re: bug#66189: [gnu.org #1975364] Broken link in Guix manual.
From: Maxim Cournoyer <[email-masked]>
To: Simon Tournier <[email-masked]>
Cc: GNU Debbugs <[email-masked]>, [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2023 22:39:41 -0400
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

tags 66189 +notabug
quit

Hi,            

Simon Tournier <[email-masked]> writes:

> Hi,
>
>> Le Jeu 14 Sep 2023 09:14:20, [email-masked] a écrit :
>
>>> https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-system-vm-image-e5f7c14.x86_64-linux.qcow2
>>> 
>>> in
>>> 
>>> https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/Running-Guix-in-a-VM.html
>>> 
>>> is broken.
>
> Yes, the link is automatically generated by,
>
>     @url{@value{BASE-URL}/guix-system-vm-image-@value{VERSION}.x86_64-linux.qcow2}
>
> For instance, today the last manual correspond to Guix revision faf3ca
> and the link in this development manual reads,
>
>     https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-system-vm-image-fafd3ca.x86_64-linux.qcow2
>
> To my knowledge, no one is pushing to FTP all these images.  As signaled
> in the URL, this manual is the development manual (/devel/) continuously
> generated and not the standard one carefully checked before release.
>
> Well, discussion about the URL scheme is tracked by #51000 [1].
>
> 1: https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/51000

Since there's already a discussion tracked there, and since I don't see
how we could easily improve on things here, I'm closing this as not a
bug.

-- 
Thanks,
Maxim