Hi Theodoros,

On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 1:12 PM Theodoros Foradis <
theodoros.for@openmailbox.org> wrote:

>
> Petter writes:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Some new users don't run `guix pull` before installing, and can have a
> > less good experience because of this. Proposing a patch to add this to
> > the manual.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Petter
>
> Just a sidenote here, that I mentioned in #guix irc channel the other
> time. I tried to `guix pull` from the 0.11 USB installer, and it would
> fail because some package couldn't be substituted,
> module-import-compiled if I recall correctly.
>
> Guix suggested as normal, that `--fallback` flag should be used, which
> is a non-accepted flag for `guix pull`. I had to `guix system init
> --fallback`, until that package was built, and then `guix pull`. Not
> having run `guix pull`, building from source was failing anyway.


Last week I tried to follow the manual (binary install with Ubuntu) and use
`guix pull` without success, `--fallback` option was there and I had a lot
of troubles with [module-import-compiled](
https://gist.github.com/helios/6d13037a7ae7be40f118573545cbccb3)
In #guix irc I found valuable helps (cbaines, rekado)  and I ended up using
the git source


git clone --recurse git://git.savannah.gnu.org/guix.git
cd guix

guix environment --fallback --pure --container -N guix --ad-hoc guile-cairo
guile-charting guile-rsvg -- sh -c "make clean; ./bootstrap &&
./configure --localstatedir=/var
&& make -j4"

ln -s ~/guix ~/.config/guix/latest
guix package -u

maybe the git/source install should be documented as well or at least
tested from scratch for newbies such as me.

--
Ra