Hi

> However, on a full Guix system I keep getting this error:
> 
> ```
> guix pull: error: Git error: error authenticating: no auth sock 
> variable
> ```
> 
> and, for the life of me, I just can't get it to work.

Maybe you're not running ssh user agent daemon under your user?  You
need it for this to work.

You can probably spawn it in a number of ways.  One of them would be
through Guix home.  See this[1] Guix manual node for info about
ssh-agent's home service :)

Also, you're not running `guix pull` with sudo, are you?  It wouldn't
work this way because sudo erases environment variables, including
"SSH_AUTH_SOCK".

Btw, on my fully Guixified laptop I am using Guix home without
ssh-agent configured and yet I do have ssh-agent running under my user.
I'm not sure what started it…

> (disclaimer: I'm a total scheme/guile neophyte -- and am learning 
> as I go)

As all of us, haha :D

Btw, there's perhaps another solution — pull from local git checkout.
You can pass a filesystem path instead of a url when running `guix
pull`. This might later cause some issues if you try to `sudo guix
system reconfigure` but that's another topic…

Good luck and happy hacking!
Wojtek

[1] https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/Secure-Shell.html


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On Thu, 30 Nov 2023 19:47:43 -0600 Mauritz Stenek <mstenek@disroot.org> wrote:

> I'm trying out Guix and created a personal (private) channel with 
> some custom packages. I access my git repo with ssh.
> 
> Using Guix on a foreign distro, pulling from my git repo works 
> fine after applying this strategy: 
> https://issues.guix.gnu.org/31285.
> 
> However, on a full Guix system I keep getting this error:
> 
> ```
> guix pull: error: Git error: error authenticating: no auth sock 
> variable
> ```
> 
> and, for the life of me, I just can't get it to work.
> 
> (disclaimer: I'm a total scheme/guile neophyte -- and am learning 
> as I go)
> 
> Please help.
>