Hello Roel,
> I installed Guix System on my computer but I am facing two problems: > > 1. "guix pull" returns: > Updating channel 'guix' from Git repository at ' > https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git'... > Building from these channels: > guix https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git 28e9a11 > guix pull: error: glibc-bootstrap-system-2.2.5.patch: patch not found > > I worked around that by doing: > $ find /gnu/store -name "glibc-bootstrap-system-2.2.5.patch" > $ mkdir ~/dummy; cd ~/dummy; ln -s <the-location-of-this-file> > $ export GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH=~/dummy > > Is there a proper way to fix this? This has been fixed by 179e6c524ae4957e6ace83f72a5651767f786ca4. I guess that if you pull again it should be fixed. > 2. Installing emacs fails because the build of glibc-mesboot0 fails > with: > > patch: **** Can't open patch file > /gnu/store/wcz8d4vkcjs7c6m56mz3lsbkxgvnb17v-glibc-bootstrap-system- > 2.2.5.patcherror 02: > command "patch" "--force" "-p1" "-i" > "/gnu/store/wcz8d4vkcjs7c6m56mz3lsbkxgvnb17v-glibc-bootstrap-system- > 2.2.5.patch" failed with status 2 I don't know what forces a build of glibc-mesboot0, but this looks like: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-guix/2020-05/msg00335.html. Is your store on an NVME disk, without encryption, by any chance? Thanks, Mathieu
