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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=)
Subject: Re: Need of daemon for "guix package" subcommands
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 14:13:40 +0200
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Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> skribis:

> Am Donnerstag, 13. Juni 2013 schrieb Ludovic Court=C3=A8s:
>> Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> skribis:
>> > I noticed that
>> >    guix package --roll-back
>> > does not work without a daemon running. Could this be changed?
>>=20
>> In theory yes, but in practice that=E2=80=99d require twisting the code =
for what
>> looks to me like an easily worked around corner case.
>>=20
>> How strongly do you feel about it?
>
> I can always do it by hand by changing symlinks, so it is not absolutely=
=20
> necessary.
>
> The reason I needed to do it is that I was in a situation where the daemo=
n=20
> was compiled with the glibc from guix and did not work.

Oh, weird.  (FWIW it works for me.)

> So I wanted to uninstall glibc, but --roll-back did not work. (Maybe
> -r would have worked?)

=E2=80=98-r=E2=80=99 builds a derivation that produces the new profile, so =
it needs to
talk to the daemon.

Ludo=E2=80=99.