glibc-locales package problems (again)

glibc-locales package problems (again)

[Thom Harmon via]

I've been through the list archives and have not found a solution. I
repeatedly get into a state where package updates are failing with the
following messsage(s):

> guix install: error: package glibc-locales@2.37 does not support
x86_64-linux

This is a binary install on Debian 12. I've seen some indication that
there might just be a problem with the package definitions guix-side
and so I tried to manually upgrade past 2.37 like so:

> guix install glibc-locales@2.39

but then I end up with something like this:

> error: #{ %make-platform-procedure/abi-check}#: unbound variable
> hint: Did you forget a `use-modules' form?
>
> The following packages will be downgraded:
>    glibc-locales 2.39 → 2.37
>   guix          1.4.0-16.aeb4943 → 1.4.0-15.e0885fc

The only solution I have found is to manually uninstall and re-install
guix every couple of weeks. This has been happening for more than a
year and, well, let's just say its getting annoying. ;)

Anyone have any advice? Or, better, a solution?

thx

Re: glibc-locales package problems (again)

[Vagrant Cascadian]

On 2024-12-27, Thom Harmon via wrote:
> I've been through the list archives and have not found a solution. I
> repeatedly get into a state where package updates are failing with the
> following messsage(s):
>
>> guix install: error: package glibc-locales@2.37 does not support
> x86_64-linux
>
> This is a binary install on Debian 12. I've seen some indication that
> there might just be a problem with the package definitions guix-side
> and so I tried to manually upgrade past 2.37 like so:
>
>> guix install glibc-locales@2.39
>
> but then I end up with something like this:
>
>> error: #{ %make-platform-procedure/abi-check}#: unbound variable
>> hint: Did you forget a `use-modules' form?
>>
>> The following packages will be downgraded:
>>    glibc-locales 2.39 → 2.37
>>   guix          1.4.0-16.aeb4943 → 1.4.0-15.e0885fc
>
> The only solution I have found is to manually uninstall and re-install
> guix every couple of weeks. This has been happening for more than a
> year and, well, let's just say its getting annoying. ;)

Based on the "guix" package downgrade, my hunch is you have "guix"
installed in your profile, so you will continually downgrade to an older
and older version of guix... as well as other packages in your profile
will get older and older as well...

If that is the case, remove guix from your profile, and make sure the
guix produced by "guix pull" is in your path,
e.g. $HOME/.config/guix/current/bin/guix.

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