Subject: bug#21784: cannot install icecat!

From: "-=}\\*/{=-" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2015 19:39:08 +0000

lulz: i was not expecting AT ALL that icecat, suggested publicly, the only
package i needed (for now), the kick start, would fail to install... (lol:
please tell murphy to leave the room)...

when is fixed 'there' do i use "pull" or "package upgrade"?

[]r.

On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 7:30 PM, -=}\*/{=- <[email-masked]> wrote:

> hi... :)
>
> i'm just a gun fan...
>
> i use linux since 2000, debian.
> had a try with nixos, then i found guix.
> i' running it on top of jessie to use icecat as richard stallman suggests.
>
> i'm doing it for the kick's of it.
> i barely really understand what you say.
>
> i just want to use icecat and get acquainted with the new gnu system and
> integrate it well along with debian... for now.
>
> []r.
>
> On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 7:20 PM, Efraim Flashner <[email-masked]>
> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 29 Oct 2015 07:30:39 +0000
>> "-=}\\*/{=-" <[email-masked]> wrote:
>>
>> > starting download of
>> > `/gnu/store/0d7xnp3nji2mi4cw4jmd3mzbpija9a5a-xz-5.0.4.tar.gz' from `
>> > http://tukaani.org/xz/xz-5.0.4.tar.gz'...
>> > ERROR: download failed "http://tukaani.org/xz/xz-5.0.4.tar.gz" 403
>> > "Forbidden"
>> > failed to download
>> > "/gnu/store/0d7xnp3nji2mi4cw4jmd3mzbpija9a5a-xz-5.0.4.tar.gz" from "
>> > http://tukaani.org/xz/xz-5.0.4.tar.gz"
>> > builder for
>> > `/gnu/store/1y6b3ar37ff4q16714m77d56giv01cr5-xz-5.0.4.tar.gz.drv'
>> failed to
>> > produce output path
>> > `/gnu/store/0d7xnp3nji2mi4cw4jmd3mzbpija9a5a-xz-5.0.4.tar.gz'
>>
>> from tukaani.org/xz:
>>
>> Important
>>
>> Availability of .tar.gz and .tar.bz2 files of certain old XZ Utils
>> versions
>> have been temporary suspended because they are consume too much of the web
>> hosting bandwidth quota. The files will be restored in November 2015, but
>> further changes may be needed if the problem persist. Sorry for the
>> inconvenience.
>>
>> It would be nice if developers of source-based distributions had their own
>> mirrors from where the users' computers would download the source
>> packages.
>> It's not good if a package manager on every user's machine downloads the
>> source package from the upstream site.
>>
>> If we didn't need xz to unpack the tarball we could switch it. 5.0.4 is
>> pretty old, is that for the bootstrap?
>>
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