From: znavko@disroot.org
To: "Tobias Geerinckx-Rice" <me@tobias.gr>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to reconfigure system without downloads I did not order?
Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2020 18:02:44 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4cf0acc569ff14b6a1a25e853b0e139e@disroot.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tut9brvm.fsf@nckx>
I restarted the process of reconfigure (usual without additional flags and hacks)
for abput 25 times and at last it downloaded everything and finished successfully.
I think Guix needs good infrastructure and some
mechanism of checking optimal mirrors and recommendations for using them.
To add new disk into system with such a bad lucks is a very bottle neck of this powerful system.
November 28, 2020 12:14 PM, "Tobias Geerinckx-Rice" <me@tobias.gr> wrote:
> Hullo znavko,
>
> znavko--- via 写道:
>
>> I am sorry. How to prevent the process of system upgrade and
>> just remain things as they are but only adding new disk to my
>> system?
>
> Guix can't upgrade your system, it can only build a new one. It
> will merely re-use parts of the old system that they have in
> common (which can be and often is ‘almost everything’).
>
> This is actually significant: you can't ask a new Guix to modify
> an older Guix's system, to leave everything in place but just add
> this one small thing, like you can for bare profiles. For that,
> you need to reconfigure the old system with the same version of
> Guix that was used to build it.
>
> What do
>
> $ guix system describe
>
> and
>
> $ guix describe
>
> say? My guess is they will both display a different commit
> because you've ‘guix pull’ed after creating the system. If so,
> you can use
>
> $ guix time-machine --commit=<system commit> -- system
> reconfigure …
>
> to apply your changes.
>
> If the system and guix commits *do* match and you've added nothing
> besides a new FILE-SYSTEM, I have no idea why Guix is
> (re-)building ffmpeg. An overzealous ‘guix gc’ in the meantime?
>
> Kind regards,
>
> T G-R
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-28 11:39 How to reconfigure system without downloads I did not order? znavko--- via
2020-11-28 12:14 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2020-11-28 12:53 ` znavko
2020-11-28 18:02 ` znavko [this message]
2020-11-28 20:48 ` jbranso
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