From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Enge Subject: Re: Need of daemon for "guix package" subcommands Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2013 23:02:15 +0200 Message-ID: <201306132302.15548.andreas@enge.fr> References: <201306131914.38521.andreas@enge.fr> <87y5adeotk.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47309) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UnEf7-0000gr-3u for bug-guix@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Jun 2013 17:02:31 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UnEf4-0007dE-Dc for bug-guix@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Jun 2013 17:02:29 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87y5adeotk.fsf@gnu.org> List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Guix List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Ludovic =?utf-8?q?Court=C3=A8s?= Cc: bug-guix@gnu.org Am Donnerstag, 13. Juni 2013 schrieb Ludovic Court=C3=A8s: > Andreas Enge skribis: > > I noticed that > > guix package --roll-back > > does not work without a daemon running. Could this be changed? >=20 > In theory yes, but in practice that=E2=80=99d require twisting the code f= or what > looks to me like an easily worked around corner case. >=20 > How strongly do you feel about it? I can always do it by hand by changing symlinks, so it is not absolutely=20 necessary. The reason I needed to do it is that I was in a situation where the daemon= =20 was compiled with the glibc from guix and did not work. So I wanted to=20 uninstall glibc, but --roll-back did not work. (Maybe -r would have=20 worked?) Andreas