GNU bug report logs - #24993
System installer grows brittle as substitutes for the release disappear

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Package: guix;

Reported by: Christopher Howard <christopher <at> alaskasi.com>

Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2016 22:36:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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To: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
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Subject: bug#24993: closed (System installer grows brittle as substitutes
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Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2017 20:31:02 +0000
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From: Christopher Howard <christopher <at> alaskasi.com>
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Subject: Documentation: 'guix pull' needed during SD installation
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2016 13:25:57 -0900
In the online installation docs at
<https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Proceeding-with-the-Installation.html#Proceeding-with-the-Installation>,
please insert the command 'guix pull' before the "guix system init"
command. Otherwise installation can fail due to missing binary packages,
which creates confusion for newbie installers like myself. Thank you!

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From: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name>
Cc: 24993-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Christopher Howard <christopher <at> alaskasi.com>
Subject: System installer grows brittle as substitutes for the release
 disappear
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2017 21:30:14 +0100
Heya,

Reviving an old bug…

Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name> skribis:

> Based on that, it looks like we garbage collected the substitutes for
> the 0.11.0 release to make space for new ones, which is too bad, but
> hopefully not a permament limitation. We have a new machine for our
> build farm front-end currently being installed and tested, and that
> server should have a great deal more storage.

Commit 4e854b1814a9216ae7cc90aef4d82fd989a519c3 added the whole
bare-bones OS as a dependency of the installation image.  Thus,
everything bare-bones depends on is included in the image.

This should ensure that at least key store items are already available
in the image.

Infrastructure-wise, the situation has also improved I think, and is
getting better with berlin.guixsd.org.

I think we can close this bug.  Let’s reopen it if I turned out to be
too optimistic.

Ludo’.


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