Ok, going on with my attempt to do the binary installation of Guix
In order to read what follows, I suspect that the information that I'm on a Fedora 23 x64 installation with the Italian locale as current can help.
At the step no 7, this is what happens
address@hidden info] # guix archive --authorize < ~root/.guix-profile/share/guix/hydra.gnu.org.pub
warning: failed to install locale: Invalid argument
And then when installing the hello package
guix package -i hello
This is what happens
address@hidden info] # guix package -i hello
warning: failed to install locale: Invalid argument
The following package will be installed:
hello 2.10 /gnu/store/zby49aqfbd9w9br4l52mvb3y6f9vfv22-hello-2.10
substitute: warning: failed to install locale: Invalid argument
substitute: updating list of substitutes from 'https://mirror.hydra.gnu.org'... 100.0%
substitute: updating list of substitutes from 'https://hydra.gnu.org'... 100.0%
The following derivations will be built:
/gnu/store/x3mmxjl4y0j65s0mf0maawqc1lqdya1d-profile.drv
/gnu/store/i14b4njiv0qv5zwbysjajfah5wzb8gm9-ca-certificate-bundle.drv
/gnu/store/5j0v7lvy5yamjjbz2hdn7drpdf7l09q8-info-dir.drv
The following files will be downloaded:
/gnu/store/jpx3ps7sf156mgwj2pa2rzwvmbh7wkz8-module-import
/gnu/store/drqr33wkc8rgfb6i78fxklnyfimsv10z-guile-2.0.11
/gnu/store/zby49aqfbd9w9br4l52mvb3y6f9vfv22-hello-2.10
/gnu/store/5nj8prd102cs4s0im7092zrq0s8b2bz3-glibc-utf8-locales-2.22
/gnu/store/jayhcsyrgfbjn6m5s0a239j6s0m6sp11-module-import-compiled
/gnu/store/6s0d366ccapbdpfsdi873cf82h6vn86k-texinfo-6.0
/gnu/store/qkc2qq86fjfgqb9khaa8j0r9wbj2k3rv-gzip-1.6
/gnu/store/x64cc332jhpswyms2agsrgw1mz4fc8l4-module-import
/gnu/store/w9n4zd6jqnm53rwgbfhbfkkwgffv7han-module-import-compiled
/gnu/store/34j2zmi69mqwrslpyizbi9mcxmn2hzgb-coreutils-8.24
/gnu/store/abgjh1qaxd5fmg24d4wl3p1q8naskz4p-perl-5.22.1
/gnu/store/341l112bqw9y9yr9bq71jazwdl9fb7yb-ncurses-6.0
/gnu/store/4djwd87yrw1yg6z19q6agmj26srixy2h-libffi-3.2.1
/gnu/store/ap38h17m9fdw27j14wj32gya092w6sa7-readline-6.3
/gnu/store/dj93jz4wn7gl1z6x6hk25hyhh75akyrf-libltdl-2.4.6
/gnu/store/l46na1l3ydhfidsfk8waq8526z0phw4p-gmp-6.1.0
/gnu/store/q43b405gx7km3cfskbdl55vgih3hkz1h-pkg-config-0.29
/gnu/store/s7sdyr3afgiqclydxgjzxxy0f1m17yvk-libgc-7.4.2
/gnu/store/xmwqkg0llh0ad36cjv2vrq7r0pjqvlf0-libatomic-ops-7.4.2
/gnu/store/xvya62n0q50aja22z56rgni0nganxk6a-libunistring-0.9.6
warning: failed to install locale: Invalid argument
And then it goes and downloads all the substitutes
Found valid signature for /gnu/store/w9n4zd6jqnm53rwgbfhbfkkwgffv7han-module-import-compiled
From https://mirror.hydra.gnu.org/nar/w9n4zd6jqnm53rwgbfhbfkkwgffv7han-module-import-compiled
Downloading w9n4zd...-module-import-compiled (147KiB installed)...
https://mirror.hydra.gnu.org/nar/w9n4zd6jqnm53rwgbfhbfkkwgffv7han-module-import-compiled 726KiB/s 00:00 | 44KiB transferred
warning: failed to install locale: Invalid argument
Found valid signature for /gnu/store/k6ncb45sb3qpfnlf8dcflxavw4d30rwa-attr-2.4.47
From https://mirror.hydra.gnu.org/nar/k6ncb45sb3qpfnlf8dcflxavw4d30rwa-attr-2.4.47
Downloading k6ncb4...-attr-2.4.47 (256KiB installed)...
https://mirror.hydra.gnu.org/nar/k6ncb45sb3qpfnlf8dcflxavw4d30rwa-attr-2.4.47 887KiB/s 00:00 | 92KiB transferred
warning: failed to install locale: Invalid argument
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