Re: Problem upgrading to latest version of Guix

[Alex Sassmannshausen]

Hi Ludo,

Thanks for your response — the tarball was indeed being downloaded from
gnu.hydra.org.

I have now been able to rebuild guix using make && make-install (ran
into the libgcrypt prefix problem — hence my patch suggestion).

I did notice that I seem to have a locale problem, whereby guile built
with guix is unable to set my local properly:

warning: failed to install locale: Invalid argument

This problem already started when I originally installed Guile with
Guix, it is not due to this upgrade. Is there another flag I might need
to set?

Best wishes,

Alex


Ludovic Courtès writes:

> Hi!
>
> Alex Sassmannshausen <address@hidden> skribis:
>
>> I've been away from decent internet access for a while, and now that I'm
>> back I wanted to pull the latest version of guix. I'm currently on 0.2,
>> issuing the guix pull command returns an error, the relevant part of
>> which I think is:
>
> Could you check where ‘guix pull’ downloaded the tarball from?  It used
> to take it from hydra.gnu.org, but that version is stale currently, so
> a few weeks ago I changed ‘pull’ to get it from gitweb instead.
>
>> The download seems to work, but earlier in the process guix complains
>> about unbound variables too:
>>
>> guix-0.2/TODO
>> ;;; guix/build/download.scm:110:17: warning: possibly unbound variable
>> `make-session'
>
> This is harmless (see the comment in that file.)
>
>> When running guix pull, do I have to re-install guix dependencies
>> manually or should it normally install these automatically?
>
> It will just keep using them, and will also keep using the
> already-installed daemon.
>
> But actually, to benefit from the “substituter” mechanism, you would
> need to reinstall the daemon, so go through ‘git pull && make && make
> install’.  (In the future that should rarely be needed.)
>
> Thanks,
> Ludo’.