Subject: Re: bug#37482: Guix fails to build libreoffice

From: Jan <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2019 20:02:54 +0200

On Thu, 26 Sep 2019 22:04:50 +0200
Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]> wrote:

> There’s no way to skip it.  However, there are a couple of tricks:
What about adding an option to only download substitutes for older
devices? I saw someone talking about such feature on the mailing list,
don't know where exactly though.

>   • The ‘--dry-run’ option always shows what would be built or
>     downloaded, so you can run, say, ‘guix upgrade --dry-run’ and see
> if libreoffice is among the things that would be built.
> 
>   • You can do ‘guix package -u . --do-not-upgrade=libreoffice’ to
>     upgrade everything but packages whose name contains “libreoffice”.

Will use these options next time, thanks for the info.

Jan Wielkiewicz