Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> writes:
> 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. Yes, this is correct. The above recipe works when Guix is used exclusively from a git checkout. Using “guix pull” via version 0.15.0 is easier. -- Ricardo
