From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Adonay Felipe Nogueira <adfeno@hyperbola.info>
Subject: bug#29519: ./pre-inst-env: substitute: Failed to autoload
	make-session in (gnutls)
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2018 16:40:30 -0200
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I didn't test this yet, but I was wondering about `sudo'
"-E"/"--preserve-env" option, wasn't it dropped because it would
conflict with other variables that the user has? Or better yet, because
it would take package definitions from other places?

2017-12-04T10:07:40+0100 Ludovic Court=C3=A8s wrote:
> Hello,
>
> The problem is that the (gnutls) module is not in the search path of
> =E2=80=98guix substitute=E2=80=99.
>
> Usually the solution is to start the daemon using something like:
>
>   sudo -E ./pre-inst-env guix-daemon =E2=80=A6
>
> so that =E2=80=98guix-daemon=E2=80=99 inherits the correct values for =E2=
=80=98GUILE_LOAD_PATH=E2=80=99,
> etc.
>
> Does that work for you?
>
> We used to have this suggestion in the doc, but it was reverted in
> commit 73a203450d21241eca50375aeb26fb418b287414.  Leo, do you think we
> can reinstate it?  I=E2=80=99m not sure why it was reverted in the first =
place.
>
> Thanks,
> Ludo=E2=80=99.
>