Re: Updating a very old Guix

swedebugia writes: > GTK? Interesting. Could you share your package profile (guix package -I) > and config.scm? The profile, yes, see below. both for my standard user account and for root. But no config.scm, I am not running GuixSD but Guix on top of Debian. You will see that my profile conta

Re: Updating a very old Guix

On 2018-11-14 16:21, Konrad Hinsen wrote: snip BTW, I did find a way to run "guix pull" which has a good chance to work on a more typical installation: remove $HOME/.config/guix and then run "/usr/local/bin/guix pull". Unfortunately, this fails on my machine because of insufficient disk space f

Re: Updating a very old Guix

swedebugia writes: > Could you report this to bug-g...@gnu.org? Done (and Ludo and Ricardo are already looking into this). > How about reinstalling v. 0.15 overwriting your current installation? > > this would invalidate all your store items though. Exactly, which is why I would like to avoid

Re: Updating a very old Guix

Hi On 2018-11-13 13:43, Konrad Hinsen wrote: snip So let's try a variant: use "guix archive" to export a nar file, copy it over to the other machine, and import it. guix archive --export `readlink -f ~/.config/guix/latest` > guix-update.nar guix archive: error: build failed: program `gu

Re: Updating a very old Guix

Hi Julien, > The command you should run is: > > guix archive --recursive --export `readlink -f ~/.config/guix/current` > > guix-update.nar > > note the --recursive (so guix can find its dependencies, but it will > bundle every dependency in the .nar, so there may be some duplication I just tri

Re: Updating a very old Guix

Le 2018-11-13 13:43, Konrad Hinsen a écrit : swedebugia writes: This is most probably not correct. You most probably do have a working Guix in the store but your current guix points to the new one which lacks guile-gcrypt. Indeed, kind of. It looks more complicated than that. As you say, th

Re: Updating a very old Guix

swedebugia writes: > This is most probably not correct. You most probably do have a working > Guix in the store but your current guix points to the new one which > lacks guile-gcrypt. Indeed, kind of. It looks more complicated than that. As you say, there is indeed a working guix in the store

Re: Updating a very old Guix

Hi On 2018-11-09 18:07, Konrad Hinsen wrote: Hi Swedebugia and Julien, First of all, thanks to both of you for your suggestions! Have you tried the commit for the next nearest stable? v.0.13 v.0.14 v.0.15? (gcrypt was added after 0.15 point) Ludo recommended in another thread to pull in incre

Re: Updating a very old Guix

writes: > I think the main feature of guix - the roll back function - rests there. > May be you could choose most previous kernel in grub and then ran > `guix system roll-back`. Would it repair your system? Sorry for my lack of precision: I am not running GuixSD, but the guix package manager on

Re: Updating a very old Guix

Konrad Hinsen writes: > I can still check out some intermediate version and build from source. I can indeed check out and build them, but not use them at all. The binaries for these intermediate versions are no longer on the substitute servers, and my machine runs out of memory and/or disk space

Re: Updating a very old Guix

Hello! It is interesting to read. I use GuixSD for 2 months. I have not accumulated problems and solutions, but an issue with gcrypt and hash appeared here. The luck was there, I only can show you a link: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-guix/2018-09/msg00153.html

Re: Updating a very old Guix

Hi Swedebugia and Julien, First of all, thanks to both of you for your suggestions! > Have you tried the commit for the next nearest stable? v.0.13 v.0.14 > v.0.15? (gcrypt was added after 0.15 point) > Ludo recommended in another thread to pull in increments. But basically > building guix with

Re: Updating a very old Guix

Hi! On 2018-11-09 15:37, Konrad Hinsen wrote: First try: "guix pull". Have you tried the commit for the next nearest stable? v.0.13 v.0.14 v.0.15? (gcrypt was added after 0.15 point) Ludo recommended in another thread to pull in increments. But basically building guix with an old guix is not

Re: Updating a very old Guix

Le 2018-11-09 15:37, Konrad Hinsen a écrit : Hi everyone, I have a computer that I don't use very often, with a rather old Guix installation from nearly a year ago. So I though I should do an update. First try: "guix pull". Does a lot of downloading and compiling, then finishes. But guix no lo