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From: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
To: John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: guix system seems not to respect ./pre-inst-env
Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2016 11:24:03 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wpex2okc.fsf@netris.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161218134237.GA9419@jocasta.intra> (John Darrington's message of "Sun, 18 Dec 2016 14:42:38 +0100")

John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au> writes:

> When I run:  ./pre-inst-env guix system disk-image gnu/system/install.scm
>
> The resulting disk image is always the one corresponding to the
> currently installed guix, not the one whose source is in .

That's odd.  It has always worked for me.  I can think of two possible
environment variables that could cause 'pre-inst-env' to fail:
"BASH_ENV" and "GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH".  Were either of these variables set
in the environment of the above command when it failed?

      Mark

  reply	other threads:[~2016-12-18 16:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-12-18 13:42 guix system seems not to respect ./pre-inst-env John Darrington
2016-12-18 16:24 ` Mark H Weaver [this message]
2016-12-18 16:30 ` David Craven
2016-12-19 10:56   ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-12-19 10:55 ` Ludovic Courtès

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