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Re: Need of daemon for "guix package" subcommands
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Ludovic Courtès |
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Re: Need of daemon for "guix package" subcommands |
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Fri, 14 Jun 2013 14:13:40 +0200 |
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Andreas Enge <address@hidden> skribis:
> Am Donnerstag, 13. Juni 2013 schrieb Ludovic Courtès:
>> Andreas Enge <address@hidden> skribis:
>> > I noticed that
>> > guix package --roll-back
>> > does not work without a daemon running. Could this be changed?
>>
>> In theory yes, but in practice that’d require twisting the code for what
>> looks to me like an easily worked around corner case.
>>
>> How strongly do you feel about it?
>
> I can always do it by hand by changing symlinks, so it is not absolutely
> necessary.
>
> The reason I needed to do it is that I was in a situation where the daemon
> was compiled with the glibc from guix and did not work.
Oh, weird. (FWIW it works for me.)
> So I wanted to uninstall glibc, but --roll-back did not work. (Maybe
> -r would have worked?)
‘-r’ builds a derivation that produces the new profile, so it needs to
talk to the daemon.
Ludo’.