bug#54546: failed to compute the derivation for (very old) Guix

[Giovanni Biscuolo <g@xelera.eu>]

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Hi Maxime,

sorry for this late reply!

I solved my problem with an ugly workaround: installing the Debian
provided guix package and temporarily using that updated daemon in the
systemd service, so I was able to upgrade to an updated Guix (since the
package in Debian is not up to date with upstream)

Maxime Devos <maximedevos@telenet.be> writes:

> Giovanni Biscuolo schreef op do 24-03-2022 om 16:23 [+0100]:

[...]

>> I get the meaning of "stubbing" but I don't know how to code in Guile,
>> sorry ? cannot help here
>
> Ok, I've tried something in the attached patch (completely untested).

Meanwhile I applied the above workaround, I did not test your patch

[...]

>> Meanwhile is there anything I can do to upgrade my guix-damon (on
>> foreign distro)
>
> What guix is the guix service using?

It was version 1.0.0

> If it's /usr/bin/guix installed with the foreign distro's package
> manager, you can do, in case of Debian, "sudo apt-get update && sudo
> apt-get upgrade"

No, I was not using the Debian provided package, I installed from the
upstream Guix binary

>> , I never upgraded my root default profile since I first
>> installed Guix on this machine so now I'm stuck at [...]
>
> Suggestion: use your regular user's guix to upgrade root's guix:
>
> $ sudo -i "`which guix`" pull 
>
> (this assumes the non-root user has a vaguely up-to-date guix)

Wow!  I did not get it before your suggestion! :-O

IMHO this should be the default way to upgrade root's (or any othe user
with an out of date Guix) guix-daemon installation

[...]

Bug closed, thanks! Gio'

-- 
Giovanni Biscuolo

Xelera IT Infrastructures

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