From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark H Weaver Subject: Re: Could not find bootstrap binary 'guile-2.0.9.tar.xz' Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2018 15:56:13 -0400 Message-ID: <87vacogug2.fsf@netris.org> References: <87604s12j9.fsf@shack@muto.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34112) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f8tCf-0002mc-4o for help-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Apr 2018 15:57:17 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f8tCb-0004HY-5h for help-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Apr 2018 15:57:17 -0400 Received: from world.peace.net ([50.252.239.5]:49984) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f8tCb-0004H1-15 for help-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Apr 2018 15:57:13 -0400 In-Reply-To: (Joshua Branson's message of "Tue, 17 Apr 2018 16:50:54 -0400") List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Help-Guix" To: Joshua Branson Cc: help-guix@gnu.org Hi Joshua, Joshua Branson 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