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<civodul>phant0mas: don't hesitate to email me or something so we can discuss the glibc-headers thing <phant0mas>civodul: sorry I hadn't email you yet, too many lessons over here <phant0mas>I found a way to do it, you actually only need 3 flags in headers configure to get it work <phant0mas>and I send an email yesterday about the building issue <phant0mas>I have to find some time to send the patches, they build glibc successfully <phant0mas>I am just working on making them a bit nicer :P <civodul>let's try to integrate them piecemeal <civodul>we can discuss how to make them "nicer" <civodul>looks like you've done the hardest part already, so making them nicer is OK ;-) <phant0mas>ok, I will start tomorrow sending them to the list <bavier>I'm packaging a backup tool, and it installs into "sbin". Should that be "bin" instead? <taylanub>bavier: if it makes sense for non-root users to use it, sure <taylanub>I don't know whether Guix attempts to make that the case for executables for which it normally isn't .. I think that would rather be a Hurd thing. OTOH, some distros demolished the sbin/bin difference entirely IIRC, like Arch. <a_e>Imagemagick has made a new release and _moved_ the old one into the legacy subdirectory. <a_e>My suggestion is to download from the legacy subdirectory, and to always stay behind one release. <a_e>It is annoying if the rug is always pulled from under our feet. <Steap>a_e: can't we add the legacy subdirectory to the mirrors ? <a_e>By the way, a few of the mirrors are also not updated any more, I will take them out. <Steap>so when a new version is released, the download of the previous one fails, but Guix just fetches it from the legacy subdir instead <a_e>Hm, yes, we could; we would need to modify the mirror locations to contain the final subdirectory. <civodul>a_e: wouldn't it be enough to add the legacy/ URL in addition to the other URL? <a_e>Actually, some mirrors keep older source also at the main directory level. <a_e>But I suppose the mirrors are tried in random order, and not in the order of the list? <civodul>they're tried in the order of the list <civodul>it would be more difficult to make it random order ;-) <civodul>it's still a good idea to add the /legacy one <a_e>Well, in that case, I may as well drop the legacy thing. <a_e>After ordering the mirrors. <civodul>imagemagick.org/.../legacy may be more reliable than a random mirror site, though <a_e>Yes, I just decided to add this one, too, as a last resort. *civodul adds the (gnu) module, fancy no? <civodul>it re-exports some of the (gnu system ...) and (gnu services ...) things, for convenience