From: myglc2@gmail.com
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: 31841@debbugs.gnu.org, myglc2@gmail.com,
Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wurmus@mdc-berlin.de>
Subject: bug#31841: ./pre-inst-env guix system no longer works without ~/.config/guix
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2018 13:08:53 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o9g6zot6.fsf@g1.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wouxjft9.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic \=\?utf-8\?Q\?Court\=C3\=A8s\=22'\?\= \=\?utf-8\?Q\?s\?\= message of "Sun, 17 Jun 2018 22:53:06 +0200")
Hi Ludo’,
On 06/17/2018 at 22:53 Ludovic Courtès writes:
> Hello,
>
> Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> skribis:
>
>> I should emphasize that when running Guix this way, if you wish to avoid
>> running 'guix pull', it's important to always keep at least one
>> known-good development environment for Guix saved as a GC root. Toward
>> that end, when I run "guix environment guix" to update my development
>> environment profile, I make sure to preserve my previous profile as a GC
>> root until I'm confident that my new profile is working.
>
> The “make as-derivation” command aims to help with this bootstrapping
> problem: given an already installed Guix, it builds your checkout and
> its dependencies like ‘guix pull’ would do. Thus, you can run:
>
> $(make as-derivation)/bin/guix environment guix
Nice! This is news to me. Thank you for pointing it out.
Does 'make as-derivation' set the "current" symlink normally set by
'guix pull'?
TIA - George
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-06-19 17:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-06-15 2:24 bug#31841: ./pre-inst-env guix system no longer works without ~/.config/guix Mark H Weaver
2018-06-15 6:56 ` Rutger Helling
2018-06-15 10:56 ` myglc2
2018-06-15 11:24 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-06-15 11:45 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-06-15 12:04 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-06-15 13:08 ` Mark H Weaver
2018-06-15 13:40 ` Mark H Weaver
2018-06-15 16:51 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-06-15 22:56 ` myglc2
2018-06-16 8:06 ` Mark H Weaver
2018-06-16 8:25 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-06-16 9:50 ` Mark H Weaver
2018-06-16 14:31 ` George Clemmer
2018-06-17 20:53 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-06-19 17:08 ` myglc2 [this message]
2018-06-20 14:06 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-06-16 7:51 ` Mark H Weaver
2018-06-17 12:54 ` bug#31841: Status: Guix requires guile-sqlite3 Maxim Cournoyer
2018-06-17 21:19 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-06-18 1:34 ` Maxim Cournoyer
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