From: Mathieu Othacehe <othacehe@gnu.org>
To: 53210@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#53210: installer: referring to N-1 guix is problematic.
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2022 17:23:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87czkw6hzk.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
Hello,
If I download the latest installer and use it to install a new system,
the "guix system init" command will install the guix package defined in
the (gnu packages package-management) module.
That means that if the installer is built with a guix package at the
version N in that module, the guix installed by the installer will be at
version N-1.
Besides the fact it is quite disturbing there are at least two major
issues:
* If the guix package is broken, it needs to build updated twice. I
recently added a comment about that:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
;; If you are updating this package because it fails to build, you need to
;; actually update it *twice*, as the installer is pointing to the N-1 guix
;; package revision.
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
* When the guix package is updated twice in two separate but near
commits, Cuirass that is checkouting Guix every 5 minutes might miss
the intermediate version of the guix package. Hence, the installation
is taking a while because the guix package is expensive to build.
Any idea on how to improve this inception problem?
Thanks,
Mathieu
next reply other threads:[~2022-01-12 16:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-01-12 16:23 Mathieu Othacehe [this message]
2022-01-12 17:41 ` bug#53210: installer: referring to N-1 guix is problematic Ludovic Courtès
2022-02-14 9:29 ` bug#53210: [WIP PATCH 0/4] Make current-guix work when run outside a Git checkout Josselin Poiret via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2022-02-14 9:29 ` bug#53210: [WIP PATCH 1/4] gnu: ci: Move generic channel building code Josselin Poiret via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2022-02-14 17:12 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-02-14 9:29 ` bug#53210: [WIP PATCH 2/4] gnu: Rename channel-build-system and channel-source->package Josselin Poiret via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2022-07-18 19:35 ` bug#53210: installer: referring to N-1 guix is problematic Ludovic Courtès
2022-02-14 9:29 ` bug#53210: [WIP PATCH 3/4] gnu: current-guix: Support when running outside a checkout Josselin Poiret via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2022-02-14 17:15 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-02-14 9:29 ` bug#53210: [WIP PATCH 4/4] gnu: package-management: Memoize current-guix Josselin Poiret via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2022-02-14 17:10 ` bug#53210: [WIP PATCH 0/4] Make current-guix work when run outside a Git checkout Ludovic Courtès
2022-08-09 13:26 ` bug#53210: installer: referring to N-1 guix is problematic Ludovic Courtès
2022-08-09 19:17 ` Josselin Poiret via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2022-08-10 10:13 ` Mathieu Othacehe
2022-08-11 14:03 ` Ludovic Courtès
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