Subject: [bug#64746] [PATCH 2/2] scripts: time-machine: Error when attempting to visit too old commits.

From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2023 22:32:09 +0200

Hi,

Josselin Poiret <[email-masked]> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]> writes:
>
>> For other problems, there’s (guix quirks), which can, to some extent,
>> let us retroactively fix problems, though that should be rare.
>
> Is there any established policy around what (guix quirks) is allowed to
> do?  To be more specific, can/will it ever change derivation hashes?

It should not change derivations, which means it can only touch
auxiliary files like ‘build-aux/build-self.scm’.

Ludo’.