From: julien lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu>
To: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How do I fix a messed-up Guix?
Date: Tue, 16 May 2017 16:03:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <38fe62eadaffe4f7823c81af2e1cc1ea@lepiller.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <adaeddf6-45a7-4a2a-2f8f-74f06b0afcfe@fastmail.net>
Le 2017-05-16 15:11, Konrad Hinsen a écrit :
> On 16/05/2017 15:02, Konrad Hinsen wrote:
>
>> I ended up rolling back until my profile no longer contained "guix" (I
>> have no idea how I could ever produce such a profile), so now I am
>> completely stuck. Any idea for getting out of this mess?
>
> I forgot two details:
>
> - I tried building python-2.7.12 using --fallback. This fails because
> one of the tests (test_pty) fails.
>
> - Under another user account, I still have a working guix profile
> because I hardly ever update it. I'd like to avoid breaking it, and
> therefore avoid the brute-force approach of re-doing the binary
> install procedure.
>
> Konrad.
Hi Konrad,
You could probably use the other user's guix version. Copy
~otheruser/.config/guix/latest to your own user's .config/guix, and try
to guix pull from that. That won't mess with the other user's profile.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-05-16 14:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-05-16 13:02 How do I fix a messed-up Guix? Konrad Hinsen
2017-05-16 13:11 ` Konrad Hinsen
2017-05-16 14:03 ` julien lepiller [this message]
2017-05-16 14:47 ` Pjotr Prins
2017-05-16 15:21 ` Konrad Hinsen
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