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From: Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu>
Subject: bug#36785: Impossible to pull on foreign distro
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Hi guix,

I gave a small tutorial to someone today, where we installed guix on top o=
f a foreign distro=2E We used the script and everything went smoothly, and =
after finding out that we were going to build php (we were trying to define=
 a VM that would serve one of their services), we tried to run guix pull:

sudo guix pull =E2=80=94commit=3D=E2=80=A6

However the command failed immediately with:

Migrating profile generations to '/var/guix/profiles/per-user/root'=2E=2E=
=2E
Guix pull: error: symlink: File exists: "/var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/=
current-guix"

Indeed, the file exists and everything looks good=2E Why does guix try to =
migrate a profile that's already good?

I was able to work around that situation, but it's not great for our users=
=2E