From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Reza Alizadeh Majd" Subject: list of available updates for globally installed packages Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2019 12:45:57 +0330 Message-ID: <00dbe29d-b242-407b-8472-5410c39cd5b2@www.fastmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:53262) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ibhok-0005XU-NM for help-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Dec 2019 04:16:32 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ibhoi-00084P-KC for help-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Dec 2019 04:16:30 -0500 Received: from out5-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.29]:45163) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ibhoc-00080j-7C for help-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Dec 2019 04:16:23 -0500 Received: from compute5.internal (compute5.nyi.internal [10.202.2.45]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id B51ED223E5 for ; Mon, 2 Dec 2019 04:16:17 -0500 (EST) 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: help-guix@gnu.org Hi Guix,=20 I asked before about a way to check if any update is available for _Globally Installed Packages_ in `/run/current-system/profile` in this t= hread:=20 https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2019-10/msg00167.html as suggested in above thread, I was pointing the target profile to achie= ve desired results:=20 ``` guix package -p /run/current-system/profile -n -u ``` but recently after updating the guix, I receive following error when I r= un above command. it seems that there is a permission issue occurs when = guix tries to access to the system profile.=20 ``` panther@panther ~$ guix package -p /run/current-system/profile -n -u Backtrace: 8 (primitive-load "/home/panther/.config/guix/current/bin=E2=80= =A6") In guix/ui.scm: 1774:12 7 (run-guix-command _ . _) In ice-9/boot-9.scm: 829:9 6 (catch _ _ # =E2=80=A6) 829:9 5 (catch _ _ # =E2=80=A6) In guix/scripts/package.scm: 945:10 4 (_) In guix/status.scm: 768:4 3 (call-with-status-report _ _) In guix/scripts/package.scm: 953:14 2 (_) In guix/build/syscalls.scm: 1124:14 1 (call-with-file-lock/no-wait _ # =E2=80=A6) In ice-9/boot-9.scm: 777:6 0 (throw "open-file" "~A: ~S" ("Read-only file system" #) #) ice-9/boot-9.scm:777:6: In procedure throw: In procedure throw: Wrong type argument in position 1: open-file ``` could anyone help me on this, or alternatively suggest a working solutio= n to check for list of available updates for packages that globally inst= alled using `guix system reconfigure` ?=20 -- Regards Reza Alizadeh Majd PantherX Team