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From: Konrad Hinsen <konrad.hinsen@fastmail.net>
Subject: bug#32183: New =?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=98guix_?= =?UTF-8?Q?pull=E2=80=99?=
	/root/.config/current/bin/guix: Permission denied
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2018 11:17:25 +0200
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To: Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: 32183-done@debbugs.gnu.org

Hi Ludo,

> To work around it, you can pull from an older generation, along these
> lines:
>
>   ~/.config/guix/current-42-link/bin/guix pull
>
> (This will work because this older guix won=E2=80=99t attempt to move your
> generations to /var/guix/profiles, so it allows you to =E2=80=9Cjump over=
=E2=80=9D the
> bug.)
>
> Let me know how it goes!

I cannot try any more because I already used another workaround, meaning
that my profiles are properly migrated.

> It=E2=80=99s terrible that a function like this that looks trivial has be=
en
> causing so much trouble.  Sorry about that.  :-/

Lesson learned: avoid messing around with mutable state. How about
creating a functional package manager?  ;-)

Konrad.