Hi, ons, 16 09 2020 kl. 01:02 +0200, skrev zimoun: > Dear, > > On Tue, 11 Aug 2020 at 15:54, Steffen Rytter Postas > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Some background first, to better understand the issue: > > I've been running Guix on a foreign distribution > > with my own channel in ~/.config/guix/channels.scm for some time > > now. > > However this means having to deal with doing both a `guix pull` as > > a user, but also `guix pull` as superuser to keep the system > > builder daemon etc up to date. > > I wanted to avoid this, by using simply a system-wide guix install, > > and > > not have my own user have a guix variant. I tried simply deleting > > ~/.config/guix/current symlink, and confirmed that `guix` was now > > using > > the `/usr/local/bin/guix` symlink. > > Then I moved my ~/.config/guix/channels.scm file to > > /etc/guix/channels.scm > > and satisfied with my setup, performed `sudo guix pull --fallback` > > to > > pull the latest changes and verify it worked. > > The command ran as expected, and printed the new packages from my > > channel that were now available. > > Well, I am not sure to understand why you want this setup since > “guix-daemon” needs (really) few updates and as regular user, when > doing > “guix pull”, if there is major upgrade, then it will be announced > with > “guix pull –news”. We all like different tastes. :-) I also wanted to maintain only one copy of "guix" usable, instead of having one version of guix per user, which is a lot harder to maintain. > > `type guix`: > > /usr/local/bin/guix > > > > `readlink /usr/local/bin/guix` > > /var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/current-guix/bin/guix > > > > `/usr/local/bin/guix show entr-git` > > guix show: error: entr-git: package not found > > > > `/var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/current-guix/bin/guix show entr- > > git` > > name: entr-git > > version: 4.5-0.6b13a97 > > [...] > > So, if I understand correctly, as a regular user, the command ’guix’ > points to ’/usr/local/bin/guix’ which points to > ’/var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/current-guix/bin/guix’, and this > latter points to ’/gnu/store/…-guix-command’. > > I think the issue is that Guix is not only one binary, so ’bin/guix’ > is > not enough. > > So you need to have also in the correct symlinks with > ’lib/{guile,guix}’ > and others. How would I set this up? This happens on a default Guix setup following the standard installation guide for installing on a foreign distribution, and then setting up the channel configuration as mentioned. > > I have not investigated but I guess the issue you hit comes from > ’lib/guix/package.cache’, correctly see by > /var/guix/profiles/…/bin/guix’ but not all your other symlink > machinery. > This does make sense, if that is somehow only read from a non-store location (I'm not sure why it would be, that seems against all the point of guix in the first place). > > Well, I do not know if it helps. > > All the best, > simon > > >