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Subject: Re: Updating Guix requires full rebuild?
Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2016 14:45:42 +0100
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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 wh=
ile the
> Guix installed using Guix used /var/guix - moving the files fixed everyth=
ing.

Oh.  You need to be *very* careful with this because
/var/guix/db/db.sqlite contains the metadata that says what=E2=80=99s valid=
 and
what=E2=80=99s not in /gnu/store.

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

Ludo=E2=80=99.