Hi,

I'm trying to bootstrap current Guix (master) from Guix past (1.1.0 binary
tarball).

The goal is: I want to have only guix-the-package-manager at a specific guix
commit (!) available inside a Docker image.

Because the package "guix" in guix is always behind a little bit, that
means I have to first check out that commit from source code, then use
make update-guix-package in order to update the guix package definition
in gnu/packages/package-management.scm to that commit and then use guix pack
in order to pack guix into a tarball, which I then extract and then copy into
a previously-empty docker image.

Or so I thought.

What I have currently is on https://gitlab.com/daym/guix-on-docker/ .
Especially see Dockerfile.

You can build it on your machine using

$ docker build --build-arg BOOTSTRAP_GUIX_COMMIT_ID=0b21bf6245b36ea21d2eeaf2340a99aa4d5894db .

(or a newer commit--it doesn't matter) and see it fail.

(it will first download https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-binary-1.1.0.x86_64-linux.tar.xz
and then check out guix anonymously from https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git at
the specified commit)

Or you can look at the CI logs on
https://gitlab.com/daym/guix-on-docker/-/pipelines and see it fail there.

The failure is when it does that:

    && ENV="guix environment --pure guix --ad-hoc git guile-readline guile-json guile-zlib guile
-lzlib bash which --" \
    && ${ENV} make update-guix-package \
    && ./pre-inst-env guix pack --verbosity=2 -f tarball --localstatedir -r /tmp/guix.tar.gz --profile-name=current-guix guix \

and it prints the following:

(see https://gitlab.com/daym/guix-on-docker/-/jobs/755694619 )

make[1]: Leaving directory '/master'
accepted connection from pid 17760, user root
git rev-parse HEAD
ff43f128b7c142ae3f758d34137e562e6f7ef0e0
./pre-inst-env "/gnu/store/s08nkx9dzpvn41s4k277p9b27abpcjvp-profile/bin/guile"			\
   ./build-aux/update-guix-package.scm	\
   "`git rev-parse HEAD`"
accepted connection from pid 17766, user root
source code for commit ff43f128b7c142ae3f758d34137e562e6f7ef0e0: /gnu/store/3bz5q9g2p11pazy4g4vq8x8qp86c7ngh-guix-1.1.0-28.ff43f12-checkout (GC root: guix-1.1.0-28.ff43f12-checkout)
;;; note: auto-compilation is enabled, set GUILE_AUTO_COMPILE=0
;;;       or pass the --no-auto-compile argument to disable.
;;; compiling /master/./build-aux/update-guix-package.scm
;;; compiled /root/.cache/guile/ccache/3.0-LE-8-4.3/master/build-aux/update-guix-package.scm.go
;;; compiling /master/gnu/packages/package-management.scm
;;; compiled /root/.cache/guile/ccache/3.0-LE-8-4.3/master/gnu/packages/package-management.scm.go
Backtrace:
In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
  3223:13 19 (_)
In ice-9/threads.scm:
    390:8 18 (_ _)
In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
  3507:20 17 (_)
   2806:4 16 (save-module-excursion _)
  3527:26 15 (_)
In unknown file:
          14 (primitive-load-path "guix/store" #<procedure 7f29ec5a9?>)
In guix/store.scm:
     23:0 13 (_)
In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
   3380:4 12 (define-module* _ #:filename _ #:pure _ #:version _ # _ ?)
  3393:24 11 (_)
   222:29 10 (map1 (((guix utils)) ((guix config)) ((guix #)) ((?)) ?))
   222:29  9 (map1 (((guix config)) ((guix deprecation)) ((guix ?)) ?))
   222:29  8 (map1 (((guix deprecation)) ((guix memoization)) ((?)) ?))
   222:29  7 (map1 (((guix memoization)) ((guix serialization)) (#) ?))
   222:29  6 (map1 (((guix serialization)) ((guix monads)) ((# #)) ?))
   222:29  5 (map1 (((guix monads)) ((guix records)) ((guix #)) (#) ?))
   222:29  4 (map1 (((guix records)) ((guix base16)) ((guix #)) (#) ?))
   222:29  3 (map1 (((guix base16)) ((guix base32)) ((gcrypt #)) # ?))
   222:29  2 (map1 (((guix base32)) ((gcrypt hash)) ((guix #)) (#) ?))
   222:17  1 (map1 (((gcrypt hash)) ((guix profiling)) ((rnrs #)) # ?))
   3300:6  0 (resolve-interface (gcrypt hash) #:select _ #:hide _ # _ ?)

ice-9/boot-9.scm:3300:6: In procedure resolve-interface:
no code for module (gcrypt hash).

What now?

Am I doing it wrong?