Related to , we have the problem that the ‘guix’ command coming from the ‘guix’ package doesn’t know its provenance: ‘guix describe’ errors out. We should fix it by storing a meta-data file within the ‘guix’ package. Likewise, on foreign distros, /usr/local/bin/guix may point to a ‘guix pull’-guix, but because of the symlink, ‘guix describe’ won’t work: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- $ type -P guix /home/ludo/.config/guix/current/bin/guix $ guix describe Generacio 171 Jan 11 2021 11:38:39 (nuna) guix 458cb25 repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git branch: master commit: 458cb25b9e7e7c954f468023abea2bebb5d8c75b $ ln -s $(type -P guix) /tmp $ /tmp/guix describe guix describe: error: failed to determine origin hint: Perhaps this `guix' command was not obtained with `guix pull'? Its version string is 458cb25b9e7e7c954f468023abea2bebb5d8c75b. --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- We should probably store proper provenance info directly in the ‘guix’ output, just like we store the commit ID in (guix config). Ludo’.