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[gnu.org #1975364] Broken link in Guix manual.

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: webmasters-comment <at> gnu.org
Subject: bug#66189: closed (Re: bug#66189: [gnu.org #1975364] Broken link
 in Guix manual.)
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2023 02:41:02 +0000

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Your bug report

#66189: [gnu.org #1975364] Broken link in Guix manual.

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

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From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>
To: Simon Tournier <zimon.toutoune <at> gmail.com>
Cc: GNU Debbugs <control <at> debbugs.gnu.org>, 66189-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#66189: [gnu.org #1975364] Broken link in Guix manual.
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2023 22:39:41 -0400

tags 66189 +notabug
quit

Hi,            

Simon Tournier <zimon.toutoune <at> gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
>> Le Jeu 14 Sep 2023 09:14:20, yuval.langer <at> gmail.com a écrit :
>
>>> https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-system-vm-image-e5f7c14.x86_64-linux.qcow2
>>> 
>>> in
>>> 
>>> https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/Running-Guix-in-a-VM.html
>>> 
>>> is broken.
>
> Yes, the link is automatically generated by,
>
>     @url{@value{BASE-URL}/guix-system-vm-image-@value{VERSION}.x86_64-linux.qcow2}
>
> For instance, today the last manual correspond to Guix revision faf3ca
> and the link in this development manual reads,
>
>     https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-system-vm-image-fafd3ca.x86_64-linux.qcow2
>
> To my knowledge, no one is pushing to FTP all these images.  As signaled
> in the URL, this manual is the development manual (/devel/) continuously
> generated and not the standard one carefully checked before release.
>
> Well, discussion about the URL scheme is tracked by #51000 [1].
>
> 1: https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/51000

Since there's already a discussion tracked there, and since I don't see
how we could easily improve on things here, I'm closing this as not a
bug.

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Thanks,
Maxim

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From: "Therese Godefroy via RT" <webmasters-comment <at> gnu.org>
Cc: bug-guix <at> gnu.org
Subject: [gnu.org #1975364] Broken link in Guix manual.
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2023 04:05:43 -0400

Hello Guix maintainers,

Thanks in advance for fixing this link!

Thérèse

Le Jeu 14 Sep 2023 09:14:20, yuval.langer <at> gmail.com a écrit :
> The link to
> 
> https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-system-vm-image-e5f7c14.x86_64-linux.qcow2
> 
> in
> 
> https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/Running-Guix-in-a-VM.html
> 
> is broken.
> 
> There are other qcow2 files in that directory, but not the one linked.
> 
> Thank you,
> Yuval Langer.

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