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Subject: Re: Having a Guix archive on the download page?
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2018 16:50:51 +0200
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Hello,

And sorry for the delay.

Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl> skribis:

> On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 02:55:45PM +0200, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s wrote:
>> Now the question is, will it always be possible to run =E2=80=98guix pul=
l=E2=80=99 from
>> an arbitrary-old Guix?  Maybe it will still be impossible sometimes if
>> the old Guix is really too old.  However, I suspect such issues will be
>> much more rare.  There=E2=80=99s essentially a single file that needs to=
 be put
>> under scrutiny to avoid such issues: build-aux/build-self.scm.

[...]

> The change to guile2 was such a break, guile-json/tls another

Like I wrote, this specific class of problem disappears with the new
=E2=80=98guix pull=E2=80=99.

> That was dependencies only. We know we are going to change the
> database in the future...

FWIW the database format for /var/guix/db/db.sqlite has always been the
same in Guix.

Ludo=E2=80=99.