From: George Clemmer <myglc2@gmail.com>
To: swedebugia <swedebugia@riseup.net>
Cc: help-guix <help-guix@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: why does this system build but won't reconfigure?
Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2018 10:13:14 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <cucr2fz4kxh.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <be636572-38cb-dbf7-9667-c1650744ab2f@riseup.net>
swedebugia <swedebugia@riseup.net> writes:
> 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.
I think this would be helpful.
> Or maybe warned you that a newer guix is available but not used
> because of the $PATH?
Wouldn't this warning almost always be generated on a single user
machine since the user's guix is, almost always, newer than root's?
AIUI, the solution in general is to train the user to use 'sudo -E' with
guix "system admin" commands.
So maybe it would be good to add the recommendation to use 'sudo -E'
with these commands to the doc.
HTH - George
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-11-05 15:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-11-05 3:15 why does this system build but won't reconfigure? George Clemmer
2018-11-05 3:25 ` George Clemmer
2018-11-05 8:38 ` swedebugia
2018-11-05 15:13 ` George Clemmer [this message]
2018-11-05 9:45 ` Clément Lassieur
2018-11-05 14:11 ` George Clemmer
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