Re: Stuck upgrading from Guix v0.12

2019-01-31 Thread swedebugia
On 2019-01-09 17:47, Paul Garlick wrote: Hi Guix, Got it! I have been able to upgrade from version 0.12 to version 0.16. I used 'guix copy' to copy a recent guix on a local server. Thank you Gabor for the suggestion. The steps I followed were: i) generate signing keys on both systems ii) cop

Re: Stuck upgrading from Guix v0.12

2019-01-09 Thread Paul Garlick
Hi Guix, Got it! I have been able to upgrade from version 0.12 to version 0.16. I used 'guix copy' to copy a recent guix on a local server. Thank you Gabor for the suggestion. The steps I followed were: i) generate signing keys on both systems ii) copy across public keys and authorize on each

Re: Stuck upgrading from Guix v0.12

2018-12-20 Thread Paul Garlick
Hi Ricardo, Thank you for your help. > 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 &&

Re: Stuck upgrading from Guix v0.12

2018-12-19 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Ludovic Courtès writes: > Heya, > > Ricardo Wurmus 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 g

Re: Stuck upgrading from Guix v0.12

2018-12-19 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Heya, Ricardo Wurmus 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 && ./config

Re: Stuck upgrading from Guix v0.12

2018-12-17 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hi Paul, 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 cle

Re: Stuck upgrading from Guix v0.12

2018-12-17 Thread Gábor Boskovits
Hello Paul, This is a hard run. Getting that system back is not easy. There are two ways I did that. The easier is to try to guix copy a working new guix from another machine. Then you can guix pull using that. 2018. dec. 17., H 15:52 dátummal Paul Garlick < pgarl...@tourbillion-technology.com>

Re: Stuck upgrading from Guix v0.12

2018-12-17 Thread Paul Garlick
Hi Konrad, Thank you for your help. > I have had similar problems as well in the past. The one recipe that > has always worked (aside from one case of a machine with very limited > disk space) is temporarily using a Guix compiled from source code. I have hit a snag.  At the compile stage I do:

Re: Stuck upgrading from Guix v0.12

2018-12-17 Thread Konrad Hinsen
Hi Paul, > A lesson learnt from a previous update process [1] was; do not leave it > too long between 'guix pull' updates.   > > However, I have one system running Ubuntu 16.04 and Guix v0.12 that I > am trying to update.  As root: I have had similar problems as well in the past. The one recipe t

Stuck upgrading from Guix v0.12

2018-12-17 Thread Paul Garlick
Hi Guix, A lesson learnt from a previous update process [1] was; do not leave it too long between 'guix pull' updates.   However, I have one system running Ubuntu 16.04 and Guix v0.12 that I am trying to update.  As root: $guix package --list-installed glibc-utf8-locales 2.25out /gn