bug#47644: Acknowledgement (guix on foreign distro won't upgrade, stuck on old commits)

2021-04-08 Thread Brian Zwahr
Well, I figured out my issue. I had created backup files manifest.scm and channels.scm and put them in the ~/.config/guix directory for storage. Turns out that these files, or at least the channels one, get read and used automatically by `guix pull`. I have moved those files to a different

bug#47644: guix on foreign distro won't upgrade, stuck on old commits

2021-04-07 Thread Brian Zwahr
Hi! It was suggested I email this in by someone in the IRC channel. I'm having an issue where guix always tells me it is "X days old" and that I should run guix pull/guix upgrade. However, running these commands does not fix the issue. guix describe shows: ``` $ guix describe Generation 9

bug#47266: guix pull: error (substituter)

2021-03-19 Thread Brian Zwahr
I was pointed to this issue from the IRC channel. I am also experiencing similar "bad response" errors during `guix pull` and `guix upgrade`. Thanks to help from IRC, I was able to sort of work around the issue by simply brute-forcing the commands, running them over and over again until they