Hi Kai, What is the status of this bug? Have you solved it? Any progress? On Wed, 20 Nov 2019 at 15:30, Kai Mertens wrote: > On Sun, 17 Nov 2019 22:14:07 +0100 > Ludovic Courtès wrote: > > > The command “sudo -i guix --version” gives me: > > > guix (GNU Guix) 20170703.13 > > > > This version predates the big ‘guix pull’ overhaul in 0.15.0 (what > > basically makes this kind of problem much less likely to happen.) > > > > Thus, you need a more recent ‘guix’ to upgrade. > > > > One way to do that is to fetch the derivation that builds a recent Guix > > and to build it. > > > > Here’s a trick to do that (for commit 57c7bfec6, on x86_64-linux): > > > > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- > > $ guile -c '(use-modules (guix)) (with-store s (build-things s (list "/gnu/store/ihylk84symj8mjhp3zmy83ch2h2pl0ks-guix-57c7bfec6.drv")))' > > $ guix build "/gnu/store/ihylk84symj8mjhp3zmy83ch2h2pl0ks-guix-57c7bfec6.drv" > > $ /gnu/store/4zmf32hjrjjjl2xp91aldxhmsmk6ff29-guix-57c7bfec6/bin/guix pull > > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- > > > > Let me know how it goes! > > Puh, in respect to the sequencing mails I have to admit that it is hard > to me to follow the discussion. So please let me ask something else in > between: Can I make use of an existing guix derivation file or guix > binary, available in /gnu/store? > > In example (on i686): > > The root account has this very old guix version: > v0.13.0-443-gde9d8f0e29 Yes, very very old! ;-) > Whereas, my user account has a more up-to-date version: > bootstrap-20190815-3564-g7696af421b > and its Generation 1 refers to: > v0.16.0 And do you still have an issue when pulling from there? > # /gnu/store/b0br0mhjxcy7bzg0c2pij1vf48jf9ddj-guix-4a0b87f0e/bin/guix pull -c0 > guile: warning: failed to install locale > hint: Consider installing the `glibc-utf8-locales' or `glibc-locales' package and defining `GUIX_LOCPATH', along these lines: > > guix package -i glibc-utf8-locales > export GUIX_LOCPATH="$HOME/.guix-profile/lib/locale" > > See the "Application Setup" section in the manual, for more info. > > > Migrating profile generations to '/var/guix/profiles/per-user/root'... This message is not expected. Something is going wrongly and was wrong before. > I guess I am back on track now, would you agree? Yes, you seems back on track. :-) Is it ok for you? If yes, answer to 38226-done@debbugs.gnu.org to close the bug. :-) > I wonder why guix did not use local guix derivations or binaries that > were already available in the store. Maybe a now-a-days version of guix > would do? What do you mean by "did not use local derivations or binaries that were already available in the store"? Do you have a concrete example? > I further wonder why the guix package itself is still listed, as with a > fresh, recent installation of guix on top of a foreign distro, guix > itself is not listed with “guix package -l”. The command "guix package -i guix" will install the package 'guix' in the profile and so 'guix' will appear with "guix package -I" It is different than installing Guix itself. Roughly speaking, "--install guix" will install the Guile library named 'guix'. And installing Guix itself on a foreign distro will install all the package manager. All the best, simon