From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: swedebugia Subject: Re: why does this system build but won't reconfigure? Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2018 09:38:59 +0100 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50584) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gJaci-0004bx-3E for help-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Nov 2018 03:52:43 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gJaPY-0004hR-PR for help-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Nov 2018 03:39:08 -0500 Received: from mx1.riseup.net ([198.252.153.129]:43829) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gJaPY-0004Z5-F1 for help-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Nov 2018 03:39:04 -0500 In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US 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: George Clemmer , help-guix Hi On 2018-11-05 04:25, George Clemmer wrote: > Oh DUH! Never mind, I guess my 'sudo guix system reconfigure' is using > the ancient guix version installed in root. Arf! > Would it be a help to you if guix declared and printed the path to itself and version it is using when reconfiguring? That way you immediately see what is going on. Or maybe warned you that a newer guix is available but not used because of the $PATH? cheers