Re: Difficulty updating Guix System or installing packages

[Joshua Branson]

"pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de> writes:

> jbranso@dismail.de writes:
>> Nope.  I'm using 64 bit.  :) I did delete old package profiles and
>> system configurations followed by a guix gc.
>>
>> Lots of stuff got deleted.   Maybe that'll help.
>>
>
> guix gc “should” not make a difference, except sometimes software like
> Icecat addons do embed store paths in user profiles.  Then guix gc
> breaks these.

I think it'll make a difference on my server, where I am also having
issues updating.  / was 99% full.  :)  It also only has 2GB of RAM with
maybe 20GB hard drive.  So it is about the mimimal hardware that guix
system works.  Maybe that's part of my issue.  I could increase the hard
drive size.

My laptop should be easier to update.  8GB of RAM, 1TB SSD.  I'll figure
it out eventually.

>> I'll probably end up using my own guide to properly update.
>>
>> https://gnucode.me/guix-deploy-failed-to-update-my-guix-server.html
>>
>> Joshua
>
> This “building guix from source” you suggest is a good escape hatch!
>
> Oh yeah, sorry to hear of these troubles.  Old versions of Guix had one
> important difference for example: The “builtin:git-download” builtin
> builder for git downloads got added into the guix-daemon.  Therefore,
> whether a guix-daemon with/without this feature is running changes
> the derivation hash, therefore substitutes do not fit anymore.
>
> commit 59587e2fda76c19b424fda9a987ff90d52ef217e
> Author: Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
> Date:   Thu Sep 28 10:50:14 2023 +0200
>
>     gnu: guix: Update to d0438fc.
>     
>     This adds the “builtin:git-download” derivation builder to guix-daemon,
>     added in commit 13b0cf85eb31e1b1ea674debbbfb0f35a32d1374.
>     
>     * gnu/packages/package-management.scm (guix): Update to d0438fc.
>
> Regards,
> Florian

Not meant as a criticism to guix...but I actually prefer NOT to use guix
on my librem 5.  apt vs. guix performance is wildly different!  May I
ask why apt is SOOOOOO much faster?

Joshua

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