Heads-up: transition to Guile 2.2

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello Guix!

address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) skribis:

> There’s a problem though, called “guix pull”.  ~/.config/guix/latest
> currently contains 2.0 .go files.  Thus after reconfiguring GuixSD to
> use Guix-for-2.2, running ‘guix’ typically gives loads of warnings like:
>
>   ;;; WARNING: loading compiled file 
> /home/ludo/.config/guix/latest/guix/derivations.go failed:
>   ;;; ERROR: In procedure load-thunk-from-memory: No such file or directory

With commit 838ba73d6e49bd2b1f2d4ed9329b65cc4e8c1f54, ‘guix pull’ builds
with the currently used Guile, be it 2.0 or 2.2.  To achieve that, it
tries hard to pick 2.0 or 2.2 packages for the dependencies of Guix.

If it cannot find a “guile-ssh” package for the Guile being used (for
instance, you’re using Guile 2.2 but lacking the “guile-ssh” package
built with 2.2), then it simply skips modules that depend on Guile-SSH;
they are optional anyway.  For Guile-JSON, it just assumes that there is
a matching Guile-JSON, which should be the case anyway.

As I wrote before, ‘guix pull’ in its current form is pretty fragile;
please report any problems you have.


In addition, with commit 7561881f2a5d2dc463c24713745eca03e67044bf, the
“guix” package is now built with Guile 2.2 instead of 2.0.  Thus, next
time you update GuixSD, /run/current-system/profile/bin/guix will be
using Guile 2.2.  At that point, if ~/.config/guix/latest contains .go
files for 2.0, you’ll get warnings as shown above, and you’ll have to
“guix pull” to get rid of them.


At this point, we’re still using Guile 2.0 (1) to build derivations, and
(2) in the Shepherd, mcron, and modules imported inside the Shepherd.
In ‘core-updates’ we have addressed #1 and we’ll address #2 as well.

Ludo’.