Re: Could not find bootstrap binary 'guile-2.0.9.tar.xz'

[Joshua Branson <jbranso@fastmail.com>]

thanks for the clarification!

Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> writes:

> Joshua Branson <jbranso@fastmail.com> writes:
>
>> I guess I'm still a little confused. Suppose that I want to update all
>> packages, on my system.  The ones owned by root, and the ones owned by
>> all other users.  Then I'd do this?
>>
>> $ guix pull && guix package -u
>>
>> $ logout
>>
>> $ login DifferentUser
>>
>> $ guix pull && guix package -u
>>
>>  ...repeat for all other users...
>>
>> $ su
>>
>> # guix pull && guix package -u && guix system reconfigure /etc/config.scm
>>
>> Does that look right?
>
> Yes, exactly.
>
> I should also mention that if you'd like to avoid some or all of these
> 'guix pull's, you can arrange for user B to always track user A's copy
> of Guix like this:
>
>   ln -sf {~A,~B}/.config/guix/latest
>
> However, manually fiddling with these symlinks is not officially
> supported and might stop working in a future version of Guix.  Also,
> beware that if you accidentally run "guix pull" as user B, it will
> overwrite the symlink, and henceforth user B will no longer track user A
> until you re-run the above command.
>
> Alternatively, if you don't want user B to _track_ user A, but you just
> ran "guix pull" as user A and now you want to quickly update user B to
> the same copy of Guix, you can do this:
>
>   cp -a {~A,~B}/.config/guix/latest
>
>       Mark