From debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Wed Sep 11 17:09:23 2019 Received: (at 37374) by debbugs.gnu.org; 11 Sep 2019 21:09:23 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42829 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1i89re-000338-R7 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 11 Sep 2019 17:09:23 -0400 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:44886) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1i89rd-00032q-3G for 37374@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 11 Sep 2019 17:09:21 -0400 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:51599) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1i89rX-0007Zf-JQ; Wed, 11 Sep 2019 17:09:15 -0400 Received: from [2a01:e0a:1d:7270:af76:b9b:ca24:c465] (port=53020 helo=ribbon) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1i89rX-0008EK-3K; Wed, 11 Sep 2019 17:09:15 -0400 From: =?utf-8?Q?Ludovic_Court=C3=A8s?= To: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: bug#37374: "Guix is too old and cannot be upgraded" (guix package -u) References: <87mufb3epg.fsf@muto.ca> <24bccfebf40e114498af09d86a1032a2cd82075c.camel@gmail.com> <87woefpb99.fsf@elephly.net> X-URL: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ X-Revolutionary-Date: 25 Fructidor an 227 de la =?utf-8?Q?R=C3=A9volution?= X-PGP-Key-ID: 0x090B11993D9AEBB5 X-PGP-Key: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ludovic.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: 3CE4 6455 8A84 FDC6 9DB4 0CFB 090B 1199 3D9A EBB5 X-OS: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2019 23:09:13 +0200 In-Reply-To: <87woefpb99.fsf@elephly.net> (Ricardo Wurmus's message of "Wed, 11 Sep 2019 09:01:22 +0200") Message-ID: <87sgp2o806.fsf@gnu.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Spam-Score: -2.3 (--) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: 37374 Cc: melon , Jesse Gibbons , 37374@debbugs.gnu.org X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" X-Spam-Score: -3.3 (---) Hello, Ricardo Wurmus skribis: >> Wow, now I want to keep guix up-to-date all the time. How long has it >> been since you pulled/upgraded guix? > > There=E2=80=99s no need to worry about that. The mechanism to upgrade Gu= ix has > changed significantly over the past years and has since stabilized. > This error will usually only hit you if you=E2=80=99re using a *much* old= er > Guix that predates the changes how =E2=80=9Cguix pull=E2=80=9D works. Specifically, the message =E2=80=9CGuix is too old and cannot be upgraded= =E2=80=9D appears when you=E2=80=99re running =E2=80=98guix pull=E2=80=99 from Guix b= efore 0.15.0, released in July 2018. (That seemed like prehistory to me but I realize it=E2=80=99s only a bit more than one year old.) But like Ricardo wrote, such problems are unlikely to show up again because =E2=80=98guix pull=E2=80=99 since 0.15.0 is designed to handle all = sorts of bumps into future Guix revisions. Anyway, the simplest option for now, melon, may be to remove your current Guix installation and install 1.0 instead. Ludo=E2=80=99.