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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Jookia <166291@gmail.com>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Updating Guix requires full rebuild?
Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2016 14:45:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bn805yt5.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160131093723.GA21358@novena-choice-citizen.lan> (Jookia's message of "Sun, 31 Jan 2016 20:37:23 +1100")

Jookia <166291@gmail.com> skribis:

> Following up: davexunit looked at this issue with me on IRC and showed me it's
> to do with the Guix built from Git in Debian using /usr/local/var/guix while the
> Guix installed using Guix used /var/guix - moving the files fixed everything.

Oh.  You need to be *very* careful with this because
/var/guix/db/db.sqlite contains the metadata that says what’s valid and
what’s not in /gnu/store.

If you run a guix-daemon instance that uses the wrong database, you
could lost stuff in /gnu/store.

Ludo’.

      reply	other threads:[~2016-02-01 13:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-30 10:06 Updating Guix requires full rebuild? Jookia
2016-01-31  9:37 ` Jookia
2016-02-01 13:45   ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]

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