From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Leo Famulari Subject: bug#22402: info guix pages Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2016 22:21:54 -0500 Message-ID: <20160121032154.GA20978@jasmine> References: <20160119014714.GA13864@jasmine> <87a8o2djsu.fsf@gnu.org> <20160119220234.GA4641@jasmine> <20160120042413.GA5494@jasmine> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44709) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aM5oz-0005YT-Mi for bug-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Jan 2016 22:22:06 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aM5ow-0001b1-AC for bug-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Jan 2016 22:22:05 -0500 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:39256) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aM5ov-0001aw-PZ for bug-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Jan 2016 22:22:02 -0500 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1aM5ov-0004pe-MO for bug-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Jan 2016 22:22:01 -0500 Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-Message-ID: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Guix List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: carl hansen Cc: 22402@debbugs.gnu.org On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 05:26:54PM -0800, carl hansen wrote: > On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 8:24 PM, Leo Famulari wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 04:45:12PM -0800, carl hansen wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 2:02 PM, Leo Famulari wrote: > > > > > > > On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 12:17:32PM -0500, Thompson, David wrote: > > > > > On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 4:34 AM, carl hansen < > > carlhansen1234@gmail.com> > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > Yes, that is the case, there is no mystery, there is indeed a > > > > > > /root/.guix-profile/share/info/guix.info > > > > > > and there is NOT a > > > > > > ~user/.guix-profile/share/info/guix.info > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > snip snip > > > > > > Ok I did, as suggested, > > > guix package -i guix > > > which I was afraid of, fearing some ouroboros strange loop destruction of > > > the universe; > > > fears unfounded, only curious effect was dozens or hundreds of > > > > > > warning: collision encountered: /gnu/store/wfvxxpdhnzd59v ... > > > warning: arbitrarily choosing /gnu/store/wfvxxpdhnzd59vkad1z... > > > > > > type messages. Otherwise, seems to work. > > > > That's not optimal. Those messages mean that of the store directories > > linked to from your profile, more than one provide a given path. > > > > For example, GNU Parallel and moreutils both have a path "bin/parallel": > > /gnu/store/7ggbvsql79s5i05a3v8cbn48kdrzf7nc-parallel-20151222/bin/parallel > > /gnu/store/ax4ppgzmx5cjqr813l3djgzhiniam1yz-moreutils-0.57/bin/parallel > > > > If you install both in your profile, those two paths both become: > > ~/.guix-profile/bin/parallel > > > > And so you get a warning and the conflict is resolved arbitrarily. You > > can't have both of the "parallels" in your profile at once. > > > > Were the conflicting paths related to Guix? > > > > I don't have the lines anymore, I think they are related to lots of > packages beside guix. > As I learn, then I will know more; for now I will ignore ignorable messages > from my > computer, and move on. Sometimes, the messages are ignorable, and sometimes not. The two 'parallels' are not interchangeable.