From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
To: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Are Guix and its install script incompatible with guix pack on purpose?
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2022 19:58:00 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sfs88517.fsf@elephly.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220224181950.38ea05de@primarylaptop.localdomain>
Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org> writes:
> [[PGP Signed Part:Undecided]]
> Hi,
>
> In the installation script we have:
>> if [[ -e "/var/guix" || -e "/gnu" ]]; then
>> _err "${ERR}A previous Guix installation was found. [...]
>> exit 1
>> fi
>> [...]
>> mv "${tmp_path}/gnu" /
>
> Guix pack also install its files in /gnu, so if we somehow installed
> something built with guix pack we can't install Guix anymore.
>
> I've no idea why it's done in this way though as the git history
> doesn't tell and there is no comments either.
>
> Is installing software made with Guix pack incompatible with Guix on
> purpose?
No.
“guix pack -RR” lets you unpack the archive wherever you want, so you
may want to use that.
You cannot have a /gnu/store directory managed by Guix *and also* place
whatever you want there. When Guix manages /gnu/store it will remove
things that it doesn’t know about.
--
Ricardo
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2022-02-24 17:19 Are Guix and its install script incompatible with guix pack on purpose? Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli
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