trouble with guix pull and guile-git

["Scott N. Walck" <walck@lvc.edu>]

Hi folks,

The FSF's LibrePlanet last weekend has reinvigorated my interest
to learn more about and start using guix.  I have a version of
the guix package manager on my machine from last year.  It's a
little newer than 0.13.0.  I tried using guix pull to update it,
but there is a problem as the transcript below shows.  I suspect
that the address

https://gitlab.com/amirouche/guile-git/

is no longer correct.  It looks like the source for guile-git is at

https://gitlab.com/guile-git/ .

I git-cloned the guile-git repo, but I'm not sure how to install
it or where to put the libraries.  Can anybody help?

Thanks,

Scott



walck@X250:~/computer/PackageManagement/guix$ guix --version
guile: warning: failed to install locale
warning: failed to install locale: Invalid argument
guix (GNU Guix) 20170526.16
Copyright (C) 2017 the Guix authors
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
walck@X250:~/computer/PackageManagement/guix$ guix pull
guile: warning: failed to install locale
warning: failed to install locale: Invalid argument

Starting download of /tmp/guix-file.Gzf8nt
From https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/snapshot/master.tar.gz...
 ....tar.gz                                 182KiB/s 01:23 | 14.7MiB transferred
unpacking '/gnu/store/idnncmjzlk1vmwggsqgwdg5dqzpshamq-guix-latest.tar.gz'...
substitute: guix substitute: warning: ACL for archive imports seems to be uninitialized, substitutes may be unavailable
Cloning into '/gnu/store/1rdw2svz4pyislan7q67mnk70c13sczm-guile-git-0.0-2.06f9fc3-checkout'...
fatal: unable to update url base from redirection:
  asked for: https://gitlab.com/amirouche/guile-git/info/refs?service=git-upload-pack
   redirect: https://gitlab.com/users/sign_in
environment variable `PATH' unset
builder for `/gnu/store/47yy3aibg105arkz40dwsmriw20r4g3i-guile-git-0.0-2.06f9fc3-checkout.drv' failed to produce output path `/gnu/store/1rdw2svz4pyislan7q67mnk70c13sczm-guile-git-0.0-2.06f9fc3-checkout'
cannot build derivation `/gnu/store/xqd3b1s3wdpxdb7a72crnfkj10zsmmcy-guile-git-0.0-2.06f9fc3.drv': 1 dependencies couldn't be built
guix pull: error: build failed: build of `/gnu/store/xqd3b1s3wdpxdb7a72crnfkj10zsmmcy-guile-git-0.0-2.06f9fc3.drv' failed
walck@X250:~/computer/PackageManagement/guix$ 

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Scott N. Walck
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Lebanon Valley College
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