Subject: bug#28355: closed (Re: bug#28063: Guix manual refers to wrong binary tarball)

From: [email-masked] (GNU bug Tracking System)
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2017 13:03:02 +0000

Your bug report

#28063: Guix snapshot version in the download URL

which was filed against the guix package, has been closed.

The explanation is attached below, along with your original report.
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Subject: Re: bug#28063: Guix manual refers to wrong binary tarball
From: [email-masked] (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Marius Bakke <[email-masked]>, Ben Woodcroft <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2017 15:02:19 +0200
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

Heya,

Marius Bakke <[email-masked]> skribis:

> I tried installing Guix on a foreign distribution yesterday, and
> copy-pasted the commands listed here:
>
> https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/guix.html#Binary-Installation
>
> However, the tarball name it refers to does not exist. I had to manually
> s/0.13.0.314-a8d0c/0.13.0/ to make the commands work.

This is now fixed.  Thanks!

Ludo’.

Subject: Guix snapshot version in the download URL
From: Ben Woodcroft <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2017 20:38:17 +1000
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Hi,

At 
https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/guix.html#Binary-Installation 
the binary download link is

|ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-binary-0.13.0.314-a8d0c.system.tar.xz|

|Unfortunately, this link does not exist even after the system is 
replaced with the correct string. The '||.314-a8d0c' needs to be 
removed. The relevant section in doc/guix.texi is:|

|Download the binary tarball from
@indicateurl{ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-binary-@value{VERSION}.@var{system}.tar.xz},
where @var{system} is @code{x86_64-linux} for an @code{x86_64} machine
already running the kernel Linux, and so on.
|

|Is there some way to replace VERSION with the stable version?|

|Thanks, ben
|