bug#32183: New ‘guix pull’ /root/.config/current/bin/guix: Permission denied

[Ludovic Courtès]

Konrad Hinsen <address@hidden> skribis:

>> To work around it, you can pull from an older generation, along these
>> lines:
>>
>>   ~/.config/guix/current-42-link/bin/guix pull
>>
>> (This will work because this older guix won’t attempt to move your
>> generations to /var/guix/profiles, so it allows you to “jump over” the
>> bug.)
>>
>> Let me know how it goes!
>
> I cannot try any more because I already used another workaround, meaning
> that my profiles are properly migrated.

Good.

>> It’s terrible that a function like this that looks trivial has been
>> causing so much trouble.  Sorry about that.  :-/
>
> Lesson learned: avoid messing around with mutable state. How about
> creating a functional package manager?  ;-)

That’s an idea worth pondering.  :-)

Ludo’.