On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 01:08:59PM +1000, Adam Bolte wrote: > Hi there, > > I'm running Guix 0.10.0 on a Debian stretch box, and I'd like to > upgrade. The box had not been booted for quite some time, hence the > version is somewhat old. > > Running `guix pull`, I get the following: > > > Starting download of /tmp/guix-file.k6X14m > From http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/snapshot/master.tar.gz... > master.tar.gz 628KiB/s 00:22 | 13.6MiB transferred > unpacking '/gnu/store/i17ynp73h182q1n72a6nqsyxk32fkhhr-guix-latest.tar.gz'... > Your installation is too old and lacks a 'guile2.0-git' package. > Please upgrade to an intermediate version first, for instance with: > > guix pull --url=https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/snapshot/v0.13.0.tar.gz > > > Unfortunately, the suggested command fails as follows: > ...snip > > From http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/boost/boost_1_60_0.tar.bz2... > following redirection to `http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/boost/boost/1.60.0/boost_1_60_0.tar.bz2'... > following redirection to `https://nchc.dl.sourceforge.net/project/boost/boost/1.60.0/boost_1_60_0.tar.bz2'... > ;;; Failed to autoload make-session in (gnutls): > ;;; ERROR: missing interface for module (gnutls) > ERROR: In procedure module-lookup: Unbound variable: make-session > 0.10.0 is quite old. Based on the error you're missing gnutls as required for getting sources from https locations. I would check the output of: guix package -A gnutls and then try either gnutls or guile-gnutls in the following command: guix environment --ad-hoc guile-gnutls -- guix pull --url=https://...v0.13.0.tar.gz -- Efraim Flashner אפרים פלשנר GPG key = A28B F40C 3E55 1372 662D 14F7 41AA E7DC CA3D 8351 Confidentiality cannot be guaranteed on emails sent or received unencrypted