From: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
To: Joshua Branson <jbranso@fastmail.com>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Could not find bootstrap binary 'guile-2.0.9.tar.xz'
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2018 15:56:13 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vacogug2.fsf@netris.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ygfd0yxftg1.fsf@fastmail.com> (Joshua Branson's message of "Tue, 17 Apr 2018 16:50:54 -0400")
Hi Joshua,
Joshua Branson <jbranso@fastmail.com> writes:
> Maybe I'm being really silly, but don't you just do a guix pull as a
> root user not as a normal user?
No. Guix is not like most distros where you have to be root to update
the package list, and where root's package list is used by all other
users.
In the Guix model, each user has their own version of Guix and its
package list. When a user runs "guix pull", it only updates Guix for
that particular user, by changing the symlink ~/.config/guix/latest.
If root runs "guix pull", it only updates the package list for root, by
changing the symlink ~root/.config/guix/latest.
Regards,
Mark
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2018-04-17 20:50 ` Could not find bootstrap binary 'guile-2.0.9.tar.xz' Joshua Branson
2018-04-18 19:56 ` Mark H Weaver [this message]
2018-04-18 21:53 ` Clément Lassieur
2018-04-19 0:03 ` Joshua Branson
2018-04-19 12:51 ` Mark H Weaver
2018-04-19 21:26 ` Joshua Branson
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2018-04-27 14:48 ` Catonano
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2018-04-27 17:16 ` Melon
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