Re: Additional channels pulled, but cannot install/update software

[Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu>]

Hi Simen,

Can you check that your "guix" actually comes from
~/.config/guix/current/bin/guix (and *not* ~/.guix-profile or
~/.guix-home, it's very important)?

`type guix` should tell you what it is. If it doesn't agree with `which
guix` and the location found by which is correct, try `hash guix` (no
output), then from that terminal you should get the new guix that you
pulled (not other terminals, you'd need to reboot for that).

It's usually a mistake to install the guix package with something like
"guix install guix" or "guix upgrade guix", because the guix package
that guix knows is necessarily from the past, so you're instead
downgrading your guix command.

On the guix system, and I think what the binary installer does, the
guix pull profile should come first in $PATH, but maybe something went
wrong in your case, or you made some changes?

Le Sat, 25 Jun 2022 20:49:23 +0200,
Simen Endsjø <simendsjo@gmail.com> a écrit :

> I'm having a problem where `guix pull` pulls all channels defined in
> ~/.config/guix/channels.scm, but somehow only guix is available
> thereafter. Any idea what might have happened? I have software
> installed through these channels which now cannot be updates as they
> don't exist in the main guix channel.
> 
>     $ cat ~/.config/guix/channels.scm
>     (cons* (channel
>             (name 'nonguix)
>             (url "https://gitlab.com/nonguix/nonguix")
>             (introduction
>             (make-channel-introduction
>             "897c1a470da759236cc11798f4e0a5f7d4d59fbc"
>             (openpgp-fingerprint
>             "2A39 3FFF 68F4 EF7A 3D29  12AF 6F51 20A0 22FB B2D5"))))
>         (channel
>             (name 'flat)
>             (url "https://github.com/flatwhatson/guix-channel.git")
>             (introduction
>             (make-channel-introduction
>             "33f86a4b48205c0dc19d7c036c85393f0766f806"
>             (openpgp-fingerprint
>             "736A C00E 1254 378B A982  7AF6 9DBE 8265 81B6 4490"))))
>         %default-channels)
> 
> 
>     $ guix describe --format=channels
>     (list (channel
>             (name 'guix)
>             (url "https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git")
>             (branch "master")
>             (commit
>             "a43c3b1818db4860ec81bf867b1e53b418a0acec")
>             (introduction
>             (make-channel-introduction
>                 "9edb3f66fd807b096b48283debdcddccfea34bad"
>                 (openpgp-fingerprint
>                 "BBB0 2DDF 2CEA F6A8 0D1D  E643 A2A0 6DF2 A33A
> 54FA")))))
> 
> 
>     $ guix pull --list-generations
>     # ...
>     Generation 28        Jun 24 2022 21:00:31 (current)
>     nonguix 1a122e0
>         repository URL: https://gitlab.com/nonguix/nonguix
>         branch: master
>         commit: 1a122e06fe046caebf39395edc797515861acd3b
>     flat 657da22
>         repository URL:
> https://github.com/flatwhatson/guix-channel.git branch: master
>         commit: 657da22f0229b978b7bf4e4d476f59f17f6a175f
>     guix a43c3b1
>         repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git
>         branch: master
>         commit: a43c3b1818db4860ec81bf867b1e53b418a0acec
>