Re: guix pull (error)

[Ludovic Courtès]

address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) skribis:

> Jeffrin Jose <address@hidden> skribis:
>
>> -------------------cut-x-here-------------
>> $guix pull
>> starting download of `guix-file.5G1sMw' from 
>> `http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/snapshot/guix-master.tar.gz'...
>> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/.../guix-master.tar.gz   4185.0 KiB transferred
>> The following derivation will be built:
>>    /nix/store/1v3ykijky3d6gq7gvnvdwkc66wq68n4c-guix-latest.drv
>> The following files will be downloaded:
>>    /nix/store/iwyl3m0n7nzh4pl0rp0n4a6n4vm7ppwp-tar-1.26
>>    /nix/store/w0wcbwwr6q8zfkwf1fiifdyiyif48zic-gzip-1.6
>>    /nix/store/8bnpcr53gwkc31gg3gsi1d7hlygqrjqj-libgcrypt-1.5.3
>>    /nix/store/q0szrvcs5bkk6ikij8qjpd56hn1z8c8k-module-import
>>    /nix/store/xx9qw71zd5wwqmbr0ls4mrjlj3w8wqk7-module-import-compiled
>>    /nix/store/ldxf5wvk7dh5d95msg7bs8fsnawxmj3h-libgpg-error-1.12
>>    /nix/store/vmsk3gwg3z9ra7rzyg34892da1dp72ap-grep-2.14
>> guix pull: error: build failed: build of 
>> `/nix/store/1v3ykijky3d6gq7gvnvdwkc66wq68n4c-guix-latest.drv' failed
>
> I can reproduce the bug.

That turned out to be awfully terrible, and we had just been lucky so
far: <http://bugs.gnu.org/15602>.

The workaround is in commit 178f77b.  To get it, you’ll have to run
‘guix pull’ from a Git checkout, with ‘./pre-inst-env guix pull’.

Thanks,
Ludo’.