Re: Install `guix pull'ed Guix to target partition on system install

[zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>]

Hi Pierre,

Re-reading all the thread.

On Sun, 20 Dec 2020 at 10:12, Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz> wrote:

> I just installed Guix System on a new machine:
>
> - guix pull -C my-channels.scm

Did you really do this “guix pull”?  Because it is…

> - guix system init ... /mnt 
> - reboot
>
> Now on my fresh system, the only Guix available is the one from the USB
> stick, namely 1.2, and not the one from my channels.

…in contradiction with this.  So bug?


It looks as you are doing:

    guix system init … # use guix v1.2

so you download all the substitutes corresponding to this v1.2.  Then
you reboot and log as regular user, run:

    guix pull

This ’guix’ clones the repo and fetches all the substitutes at version
origin/version to be able to run the last ’guix’, i.e., create:

  ~/.config/guix/current


If you really did:

   guix pull
   guix system init …
   reboot
   login as regular user
   guix pull

and it took twice half an hour (for each “guix pull”) in addition to all
required by your config, I miss something.  Because, the second pull
should not be so long.

Well, one way to fix is, before the reboot, run “guix archive --export
-r $(readlink -f /path/to/default/guix/profile)” and then after the
login run “guix archive --import”.  This should avoid to fetch twice the
same substitutes (used by Guix).  I thought that something like that was
included by “guix system init”.

In conclusion, the problem here does not seem cloning the repo, but
fetching all the substitutes twice.

Cheers,
simon