Hi Ludo,
> ‘guix pull’ will happily perform the transition.
For me, I have an older Guix (16th May) that fails to install guile-gcrypt. As root:
$ guix --version
guix (GNU Guix) 6f84dc4314cd84550d9fc7e7afa11c495edc45a5
When I try 'guix pull' there is an attempt to build guile-gcrypt locally that fails with the message './configure: No such file or directory'. I can see that the build procedure moves from the 'unpack' phase straight to the 'patch-usr-bin-file' phase with no 'bootstrap' phase in between.
Aha, another chicken-and-egg, I thought; my older Guix does not have a 'bootstrap' phase. However, I can see that the commit for adding the new phase was made on 11th March, so perhaps 'guix pull' is failing for a different reason.
Maybe there is a workaround for this scenario. WDYT?
Best regards,
Paul.