Re: Problem upgrading to latest version of Guix

[Ludovic Courtès]

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’.