Heya, Ricardo Wurmus <rek...@elephly.net> skribis:
> I’m in the same situation upgrading a machine that didn’t have an > Internet connection for months. > > Here’s what I do: > > - use a git checkout to jump to commit > b0cb92b2d43a2c4d5fa9b3f8c04c5732c60061e7, which adds guile-gcrypt > > - ./bootstrap && ./configure --localstatedir=/var && make clean && make > > - ./pre-inst-env guix package -i guile guile-sqlite3 guile-json > guile-ssh guile-gcrypt > > - update to the latest version Just a reminder so people don’t run away ;-): the upgrade story got much better shortly before 0.15.0, when ‘guix pull’ got the ability to “build Guix from Guix” in a way that does not rely* on the currently installed Guix. For example, you can run 0.15’s ‘guix pull’ and upgrade to today’s Guix without problems. Ludo’. * More specifically, ‘guix pull’ relies on a small subset of Guix functionality that hasn’t changed in a couple of years, which is a lot given Guix’s history.
