bug#25852: Users not updating their installations of Guix

[Tomáš Čech]

On Mon, Mar 06, 2017 at 04:34:34PM -0500, Leo Famulari wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 06, 2017 at 10:12:21PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> > Leo Famulari <address@hidden> skribis:
> >
> > > In my opinion, the recent bug #25775 (Can't install packages after guix
> > > pull) [0] exposed a sort of meta-bug: there are a significant number of
> > > users who were still using the guix-daemon from 0.10.0.
> > >
> > > It seems unlikely that they have been updating all of root's
> > > packages except for the guix package. Rather, I bet they never updated
> > > root's packages at all, for ~1 year.
>
> They could have been stuck with an old daemon if they copied the systemd
> or upstart service files we provide.
>
> That problem should be fixed by 613d0895b92c677e0639d5e77c55043e38e020c8
> (build: Don't embed absolute paths in .service and .conf service
> files.).

That is right. But

1) there was no release with this "fix"
2) I (as distro package maintainer) didn't take this patch manually as
  it is fragile and hacky. Have you considered fresh guix installation?

Best regards,

S_W

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